phpdesktop support PHP 7.4

That means it cant be used with Laravel 8 since the minimum PHP version required is 7.3

looks like yes ;) i think phpdesktop bad idea for desktop app, use electron or PWA. it means, use JavaScript

Any documentation you can point me to explore for the electrons?

@brainyt How about reading the documentation?

https://www.electronjs.org/docs

@trin Meanwhile, can you share more light on why phpdesktop is a bad idea

@brainyt I’ll give you one: PHP is an interpreted language, and is wholly unsuitable for desktop apps. Use a more appropriate language for building desktop apps.

@martinbean like?

@brainyt Like something that isn’t a web scripting language. It depends what operator system you’re targeting as to what language you’d choose from.

For Windows, you’d use something like C#. For macOS, you’d use Swift. Both have IDEs for working with those operating systems (Visual Studio and Xcode).

Or, you can use Electron and build a cross-platform app using JavaScript, which has already been suggested.

@martinbean The app has already been build with laravel, just looking for a way to make it a standalone on the desktop to look more like a desktop app and users will not need to visit the browser before accessing it.

@brainyt Yeah. I always just build a complete app in something before checking if the target platform actually supports apps written in that technology 🙄

You should have check before writing a line of code whether PHP was suitable for desktop apps, and you would have quickly found it isn’t.

@martinbean You know when you already build an app for a client, and he introduces that feature

Then you tell them they’ve asked for a web app, and that you’ve built a web app 😄

@martinbean ....then find better clients

@syracine great work, just tried out your release, working fine thanks for updating the project.