FrankenPHP

Laravel Https in Dev With Docker Compose

Fri Jun 20, 2025 Laravel HTTPS FrankenPHP Caddy ViteJS Dusk mkcert Docker

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

Laravel Frankenphp Octane Sail

Thu Mar 13, 2025 Laravel PHP FrankenPHP Octane Docker InertiaJS

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.