Laravel Octane

Laravel Octane supercharges your application's performance by serving your application using high-powered application servers, such as Swoole, RoadRunner, and FrankenPHP. Octane boots your application once, keeps it in memory, and then feeds it requests at supersonic speeds. For more information, visit Laravel Octane Documentation.

Benefits of Laravel Octane

1. Performance Boost: By keeping your application in memory and serving requests using high-performance servers, Octane significantly reduces the response time and increases the throughput of your application.
2. Reduced Latency: Octane reduces the latency of your application by eliminating the need to boot the framework from scratch for every request.
3. Efficient Resource Utilization: With Octane, you can handle more requests with fewer resources, making your application more efficient and cost-effective.
4. Scalability: Octane makes it easier to scale your application horizontally by distributing the load across multiple workers.
5. Improved Developer Experience: Octane provides a seamless development experience with features like hot reloading, which automatically reloads your application when you make changes to the code.

Before and After

Before Octane

After Octane

How to Install and Run Laravel Octane

1. Install Dependencies:
   1. Run composer install to install the dependencies.
   2. Run npm install to install the dependencies.
2. Start the Development Server:
   1. Run php artisan octane:start to start the Octane server.
   2. Run npm run dev to start the Vite server.
3. Access the Application:
   1. Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000.

Using Laravel Sail with Octane

Laravel Sail is a lightweight command-line interface for interacting with Laravel's default Docker development environment. You can use Sail to run Laravel Octane in a Docker container.

Steps to Use Laravel Sail with Octane

1. Install Laravel Sail:

   1. Run composer require laravel/sail --dev to add Sail as a development dependency.
   2. Run php artisan sail:install to install Sail.

2. Start the Sail Environment:

   1. Run ./vendor/bin/sail up to start the Docker containers.

3. Install Octane:

   1. Run ./vendor/bin/sail composer require laravel/octane to add Octane to your project.
   2. Run ./vendor/bin/sail artisan octane:install to install Octane.

4. Start the Octane Server:

   1. Run ./vendor/bin/sail artisan octane:start to start the Octane server within the Sail environment.

5. Access the Application:

   1. Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost to access your application running with Octane in the Sail environment.

By using Laravel Sail, you can easily set up and run Laravel Octane in a Dockerized environment, ensuring a consistent development setup across different machines.

Configuration

To configure the Octane server, you can use the octane:start command with the --server option. For example, to start the Octane server with the FrankenPHP server, run:

php artisan octane:start --server=FrankenPHP

🎀 You Can use docker directly, run

docker compose up -d

Additional Resources

For more information on configuring and using Laravel Octane, visit the Laravel Octane Documentation.