Way to compile Laravel application to executable binary file

Frankenphp is a great Invention. It is a new way to run and deploy PHP applications more efficiently. Frankenphp is built using Go language and works with Caddy Server. Caddy is a very popuplar web server to serve php application with better performance. The key features of it is it can handle multiple request at once, It is possible for its built in concurrency tool which makes it fatster than traditional PHP setups.

The amazing part of Frankenphp is it can bundle the full php application into a single executable binary file. This means if the application bundled into binary code no one can see the original source code and it is one way to efficiently , effectively protect the source code to be exposed. I did worked on a Hospital Management Solution in previous project and the client requirement was to protect the original source code even the if the application is running on the client local machine. I didn't find any other effective solution to protect the source code. By searching the solution I discovered Frankenphp and it is amazing features.

Frankenphp also supports modern web features like HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and automatic SSL certificate generation. Frankenphp boots the application once and it keeps the application in memory so that it can handle massive request without booting the whole application every time.

We will use docker to build the binary file. Frankenphp provides a Static Builder docker image to build the binary file. We will use the static builder , it makes the process very simple and easy. You can get the static build from docker hub dunglas/frankenphp:static-builder