You're reading from High Performance with Laravel Octane Learn to fine-tune and optimize PHP and Laravel apps using Octane and an asynchronous approach

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801819404

Length 204 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Laravel

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Roberto Butti

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: The Architecture

2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Laravel Web Application Architecture FREE CHAPTER

3. Part 2: The Application Server

4. Chapter 2: Configuring the RoadRunner Application Server

5. Chapter 3: Configuring the Swoole Application Server

6. Part 3: Laravel Octane – a Complete Tour

7. Chapter 4: Building a Laravel Octane Application

8. Chapter 5: Reducing Latency and Managing Data with an Asynchronous Approach

9. Part 4: Speeding Up

10. Chapter 6: Using Queues to Apply the Asynchronous Approach in Your Application

11. Chapter 7: Configuring the Laravel Octane Application for the Production Environment

12. Index

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Prepping a Laravel application for production

Now, we will focus on Laravel-specific configurations for the production environment. We will see how to install production PHP/Laravel packages, avoiding installing packages for development and debugging. We will see how to optimize cache configurations, routing settings, and view optimization. Finally, we will see how to inhibit debugging options. Debugging options are very useful in development, but can slow down the execution of the Laravel application in production.

Installing the packages for production

In the composer.json file, two types of packages are listed: require defines the packages for running the application in a production environment, and require-dev defines the packages for running the application in a development environment.

By default, composer installs all the packages from both lists.

If you only want to install the packages from the require list (production), you can use the –-no-dev option while...