A Web Developer’s Blog
I just has the most painful time configuring domain based routing in Laravel to work on dev/stage/prod according to env vars.
Everything worked fine in dev - only for me to stuck getting 404s when I deployed to kubernetes.
I need to work on some cross site javascript and so I need a trusted TLS cert installed an running in my dev system.
I was already running via FrankenPHP and Docker Compose
I used (mkcert)[github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert] and customised the Caddyfile that FrankenPHP uses
My Laravel project is in part a headless CMS - this means it has and API that gets called by a frontend system - with around 10 API requests per page view.
We can cache some of that - but sometimes caches are empty and the site still has to be responsive.
The meant I needed to optimise my Laravel site and after a few experiments I found that using [Laravel Octane]](https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/octane) with FrankenPHP gave me the performance boost I needed without needing any significant code change.