Adding support for Laravel Octane?

[sikhlana]

If my understanding is correct, even the production built NativePHP uses PHP's development server to serve the HTTP requests to the application.

Maybe add support for laravel/octane + swoole (may not have Windows support) / roadrunner for the HTTP server instead?

[simonhamp]

I would love to use Octane, but it relies on the pcntl extension, which means it won't work on Windows.

We'll need our own custom implementation that doesn't rely on pcntl.

But yeh, this would be great.

Using the development server

Yes, it's true, even apps that go to production will use PHP's built-in dev server. So far this isn't an issue, it merely acts as a lightweight interface to running the PHP code. But for sure I would like a more robust solution. Ideally where we're not having to listen on a network interface at all.

[sikhlana]

Just an idea for HTTP replacement: maybe we can create some kind of IPC bridge between electron and php just like how it's done in roadrunner: https://github.com/roadrunner-php/goridge (IPC between golang and php).

I will give this approach a try when I have some free time.

[yangweijie]

In windows you can run swoole in cygwin 。 which pcntl and other linux only extension can be built and run well。I build php7.4 with swoole 4.x and ffi successfully.