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End-to-end walkthroughs that exercise the framework’s primitives in real-world shapes. Each example is self-contained — clone the project, run the migration, copy the files, and it works.

Walkthrough	What it covers
TODO application	CRUD, components, layouts, CSRF, flash messages, raw SQL
JSON API	Versioned routes, bearer-token auth, rate limiting, CORS, pagination
File uploads	$_FILES, MIME verification, optional S3-compatible mirroring
Real-time chat (SSE)	tiny::sse()->streamKey/sendKey, room-keyed delivery, EventSource client
User management	Sessions, password hashing, password reset, profile updates, role checks

What you’ll see across all examples

• Filesystem-routed controllers (app/controllers/*.php) extending TinyController
• TinyModel subclasses that use the raw-SQL helpers on tiny::db()
• Layout::main(...) open/close pattern for page chrome
• tiny::csrf()->input() + $request->isValidCSRF() for state-changing forms
• tiny::flash('name')->set/get for one-shot user feedback
• HTMX-aware responses where it makes the example shorter

Every example sticks to APIs documented in Core concepts and Extensions — no invented helpers, no ORM relations, no magic auth layer.

Prerequisites

A fresh Tiny project (php tiny/cli create), Composer dependencies installed, and a database configured via TINY_DB_* env vars. Some examples reference users and tiny::user() — see the User management walkthrough for how that table and middleware are wired up.