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• Simple, fast routing engine.
• Powerful dependency injection container.
• Multiple back-ends for session and cache storage.
• Expressive, intuitive database ORM.
• Database agnostic schema migrations.
• Robust background job processing.
• Real-time event broadcasting.

Laravel is accessible, powerful, and provides tools required for large, robust applications.

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The Laravel framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

This repository includes a production-oriented Docker setup based on FrankenPHP:

• Dockerfile
• Caddyfile
• .dockerignore

Build the image:

docker build -t laravel-frankenphp .

Or run with Docker Compose:

docker compose up --build -d

Run with the optional MySQL service profile:

docker compose --profile db up --build -d

Run the container:

docker run --rm -p 8080:80 \
  -e APP_KEY=base64:REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_APP_KEY \
  -e APP_ENV=production \
  -e APP_DEBUG=false \
  -e SESSION_DRIVER=file \
  -e CACHE_STORE=file \
  laravel-frankenphp

Then open http://localhost:8080.

Notes:

• The image serves Laravel from public/ through FrankenPHP+Caddy.
• Vite assets are built during the image build and copied to public/build.
• By default this project is configured for SQLite; configure DB_* environment variables if you use MySQL/PostgreSQL.
• If you keep database-backed session/cache drivers, run migrations before serving traffic.
• Compose defaults to SQLite (app service only). Use --profile db to start MySQL as well.