Octane Helpers

This package will provide some basic functionality to our various Laravel Octane projects.

Installation

$ composer require ge-tracker/octane-helpers

After installation, the BootApplication class should be added to the RequestReceived listener in octane.php:

'listeners' => [
    ...
    
    RequestReceived::class => [
        ...Octane::prepareApplicationForNextOperation(),
        ...Octane::prepareApplicationForNextRequest(),
        \GeTracker\OctaneHelpers\Listeners\BootApplication::class,
    ],

Routing

We can make use of Octane's builtin routing to serve requests that bypass Laravel's router (and middleware) to serve data very fast.

With a basic controller that extends OctaneController:

<?php

namespace GeTracker\OctaneHelpers\Http\Controllers;

class ServerTimeController extends OctaneController
{
    public function getServerTime()
    {
        return time();
    }
}

We can add the following to our web.php routes file:

<?php
use GeTracker\OctaneHelpers\Facades\OctaneRoute;

OctaneRoute::get('/api/server-time', [ServerTimeController::class, 'getServerTime']);