API Platform was one of the first PHP frameworks to provide native support for Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and, more recently, Skaffold. The API Platform skeleton also served as the basis for Symfony Docker, the most popular solution for containerizing Symfony projects. These years of developing skeletons compatible with dev environments, continuous integration chains, and…
Tag: FrankenPHP
Running Laravel Apps With FrankenPHP (Laracon EU)
Here’s the talk I gave at Laracon EU 2023: And here are the slides:
PHP and Symfony Apps As Standalone Binaries
Distributing PHP applications is quite complicated. For instance, to run a Symfony project in production, a web server, the PHP engine, and the appropriate PHP extensions need to be installed. Their versions and configurations must be compatible with the app. Because PHP is an interpreted language, the application source code must also be available. Composer…
Webperf: Boost Your PHP Apps With 103 Early Hints
Google Chrome, Firefox, Caddy, and Apache now support a new HTTP status code: 103 Early Hints. Since version 6.3, Symfony also supports 103 responses, and FrankenPHP also supports it natively. This new, rather unusual type of response has a single objective: to speed up the loading time of your websites and applications by allowing the…
The PHP Revolution Is Underway: FrankenPHP 1.0 Beta
I’m very proud to announce the immediate availability of FrankenPHP 1.0 beta. FrankenPHP is a brand-new application server for PHP, written in Go and built on top of Caddy, that dramatically simplifies the deployment of PHP apps, and brings new features to PHP such as: FrankenPHP is available as a Docker image (Debian, Alpine, PHP…