WP Bones is a lightweight framework that brings Laravel-style architecture — IoC container, service providers, Blade templating, Eloquent ORM — to WordPress plugin development. Built on Composer and a modern webpack + yarn + TypeScript pipeline, it gives plugin developers the patterns they already know from Laravel, adapted to the WordPress lifecycle.

WordPress's architecture doesn't fully support the composer/vendor approach out of the box, so a handful of Composer features can't be used the way you would in a standalone PHP app. For the coding restrictions you should be aware of, see the Before Submitting to the WordPress Repository guide.

This framework aims to integrate modern JavaScript tooling into a WordPress environment. If you like Composer, yarn, Laravel, webpack and TypeScript, this framework is for you.

If you're familiar with the Laravel Framework, you'll also love the WP Bones Framework. I drew inspiration from Laravel when developing WP Bones. However, as you might expect, the WordPress environment doesn't support Composer as we would like. Therefore, you'll notice many similarities to Laravel, along with some key differences.