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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The Project

Experimentation with real-time constraints.

Compatibility designed around Laravel conventions.

Low-level work that helps understand stack limits.

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.