Experimental project

FrankenPHP WebSocket

An experimental Pusher-compatible WebSocket module for high-performance real-time broadcasting in PHP.

Role and context

Technical exploration around real-time PHP, with a practical compatibility goal for existing Laravel broadcasting use cases.
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Outcomes

Experimentation with real-time constraints.
Compatibility designed around Laravel conventions.
Low-level work that helps understand stack limits.

What the project shows

Understanding real time
The project deals with persistent connections, messages, protocol compatibility and performance beyond classic CRUD.
Laravel connection
The Pusher-compatible goal makes the experiment useful for Laravel apps already using broadcasting.
Infrastructure culture
This kind of project informs decisions about deployment, workers, resources and observability.