php-wasm VS wasmer-php

Something closer to “native“ (although still not native) would be an electron app with php interacting with the dom using something like php-wasm https://github.com/seanmorris/php-wasm. Now THAT would be incredible to interact with the ui (dom) without writing any JavaScript, all php.

(And yes, php for browser exists https://github.com/seanmorris/php-wasm )

Presumably more trouble than normal options are worth, but you can also run PHP code in your browser directly using WebAssembly, like https://github.com/seanmorris/php-wasm does. You’ll still have to write normal front end stuff for the visualizations, but this saves you needing to run a server (in theory…I’ve never tried it)

There's work being done with wasm, e.g. php-wasm, but I haven't used it and don't know how well it works etc.

closest I found was https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-php but it seems both abandonded and very rough, proof of concept.

Oh yeah?

You are right. I am planning to add PHP, similar to wasmer-php[0], but based on Service Worker.

[0]: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-php

Some things you should know about or try: Composer (package manager) and Packagist (the package registry) API Platform (based on Symfony) for easy REST/GraphQL API building Phalcon, a high performance framework Slim, a micro framework ReactPHP, a php implementation of node (async php) Wasmer-php, a wasm runtime with the potential to create portable extensions / packages