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Hello, I am currently building a Dashboard that performs multiple "fetch()" requests to the server to get data for the different charts. I am developing locally with Laravel Sail under Windows/WSL.
Looking at the Chrome DevTools Network Waterfall it looks like all requests get sent at the same time but the Laravel server only handles them one after the other and thus they load relatively slow.
Does Laravel Sail only handle one request at a time? It it only running on one Kernel Thread? Is there a way to allow multithreading multiple requests?
Laravel sail uses php artisan serve under the hood instead of a real webserver, so it can only handle 1 request at a time. You can perhaps use octane to get around it (or pick another docker stack)
Personally I use Lando: https://sinnbeck.dev/posts/using-lando-to-run-laravel-in-docker
@Sinnbeck Thank you! For some reason I thought it used apache2 under the hood. I'll look into Lando and https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/octane#roadrunner-via-laravel-sail to get multithreading working
@peter_opps Yeah I thought so as well, when it was released. But digging into the source I saw this: https://github.com/laravel/sail/blob/1.x/runtimes/8.1/supervisord.conf#L8
But it comes preinstalled with swoole to use with octane: https://github.com/laravel/sail/blob/1.x/runtimes/8.1/Dockerfile#L33
You can add PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS variable right to your .env to increase the number of workers spawned by PHP's built-in server.
// .env
// Process 3 requests at a time
PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS=3
This works with Laravel Sail.
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