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In order to compare a couple Javascript MVC libs, I wanted to get a small REST server running to persist some data to. I saw Silex before, and figured to just use that.

(Note in the below examples, I’m using composer in an globally installed environment.)

$ mkdir rest
$ cd rest
$ vi composer.json

The contents of the composer.json file (per intro on http://silex.sensiolabs.org/download)

{
    "require": {
        "silex/silex": "1.0.*"
    },
    "minimum-stability": "dev"
}

$ composer install
$ mkdir web
$ cd web
$ vi index.php

The contents of index.php are per the http://silex.sensiolabs.org/doc/usage.html#bootstrap example.

// web/index.php

require_once __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

$app = new Silex\Application();

// definitions

$app->run();

Thats it! We have a sandbox to start building out more routes to handle the RESTful calls.