gs-spring-boot VS frankenphp

You're welcome. You can do this fairly easily with straight java SE, but once you've done that take look at what Spring has to offer, in particular Spring Boot. Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection are super powerful!

You can try the official documentation on https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/ There are courses as well. Also you can check out https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot

Spring does have a broilerplate "get it up and running" project. Go to start.sprint.io , configure whichever stuff you will need, download the project, import it in your IntelliJ, read and implement https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/ , then run it.

Soring's own guides are pretty good to be honest. https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/

Not necessarily a book recommendation but I’m a strong believer in actually implementing a project to learn about the tech stack. Spring has a great tutorial: https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/

Their docs are pretty complete. Here is an example with start to finish: https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/ It says you only need 15min and some libs.

Spring has a guide.

i use java with spring boot (link), also look up "MVC web development", i use thymeleaf in the html as part of the MVC approach. (i use maven to manage the packages.)

Uses the new FrankenPHP server to add SSL support to your local environment

Depending on the application you can already do this. For example: https://frankenphp.dev/

File size of binaries is almost never a relevant factor. Your server running your code is probably not so constrained on disk space that it would matter. It's not like it's gigabytes, it's only ~110MB. See the assets on the latest release: https://github.com/dunglas/frankenphp/releases/tag/v1.0.0

A new player is entering the game: FrankenPHP. This is a new application server which can be used instead of Apache or nginx.

Don't follow any advice to use Apache as a reverse proxy, or bundle php with a classic web server.

There are real application servers using an event loop by now, most notably Roadrunner (https://roadrunner.dev), FrankenPHP (https://frankenphp.dev), Laravel Octane (https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/octane#introduction), Swoole Bridge for Symfony (https://github.com/insidestyles/swoole-bridge-bundle).

In general, you can do a lot with OpenSwoole or Roadrunner. They are vastly superior (in a container scenario) to any other suggestion in this thread!

And up-and-comer is https://frankenphp.dev/ which invokes PHP directly from a Go server (as a plugin for Caddy) using CGO. Not quite stable yet, but it's looking good and lots of progress has been made. Disclosure: I work on Caddy :)