Really, Can Laravel Run Inside Node.js?
summary
A project called php-node embeds a compiled PHP interpreter into a Node.js process via Rust bindings and the embed SAPI to run Laravel inside Node. The demo shows a working proof-of-concept: Laravel serves routes within Node, integrates with Vite/Next/Astro, streams WebSocket data on the main process, and uses VAT as an internal application server for domain routing without external network hops. Performance is acceptable on a developer machine but requires Rust-level optimizations and configuration tuning for production scale.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Can Laravel run in Node.js?
- 1:54PHP in Node.js
- 3:19PHP Server APIs
- 7:56CLI vs HTTP SAPI
- 11:30Embed SAPI in Node
- 15:45Non-blocking PHP in Node
- 16:30VAT as multi-language server
- 18:39VAT config and routing
- 20:23Performance and limits
- 21:06Laravel with Next.js demo
