Launching RESTful APIs on legacy bound frameworks is easy as never — even vintage mode is on.

composer create-project laminas-api-tools/api-tools-skeleton
cd api-tools-skeleton
php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public public/index.php

In this instance opening web browser is easy as well — so you can develop database driver, its connection to actual MySQL server and so on.

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