woocommerce-custom-orders-table VS React

If you want that functionality right now you can use https://github.com/liquidweb/woocommerce-custom-orders-table I've used it multiple times, and have never had problems. There actually is a good chance custom tables could land in WooCommerce this year as all they have to do is integrate that plugin into WooCommerce. The plugin has already gotten heavy use on many big websites, and I know that the WooCommerce team knows about the plugin's existence.

I just want to preface this with a "Tread carefully" - but this might be worth keeping an eye on: https://github.com/liquidweb/woocommerce-custom-orders-table

WooCommerce also has a severe limitation right now, and that's that the orders are still currently a custom post type, and the postmeta table grows to millions of records, eventually slowing down the site. If your site is going to be processing a large quantity of orders, you might be able to use something like this: https://github.com/liquidweb/woocommerce-custom-orders-table , but you should at least be aware of this problem now.

ReactPHP is a library that allows you to turn PHP into something like Go or Node.js so that tasks can be performed asynchronously. Note that ReactPHP is just a library that you install with Composer. It doesn’t have cumbersome requirements, such as installing a custom PHP extension; it just works as intended.

ReactPHP is categorized as a low-level dependency for event-driven programming. It features an event loop that supports low-level utilities, such as HTTP client/server, async DNS resolver, streams abstraction, and network client/servers.

So you could either skip the framework entirely and shave of these 10ms per request, or you could turn to something like Laravel Octane or ReactPHP to have a long running application that answers requests without bootstrapping the whole framework each time (which is what Node.js, Python or .NET applications do, the practice of restarting the whole app with every request is quite unique to the PHP community).

I remember calling out the movement to serverside of the frontend framework as reactPHP (I think it's when the remix hype first surfaced) on twitter and realized there's a literal php framework called reactPHP (https://reactphp.org/) since they liked my tweet lol.

https://reactphp.org/ of course.

You could also use something like EventMachine (In ruby), Twisted (Python), Node (JS) or ReactPHP (for PHP) that will use the language and turn it into a web application server, and then you'll have only one long running process that handle all your requests with shared memory. You could even use something more fancy like RoadRunner in the case of PHP.

Comparing PHP to NodeJS is completely wrong to begin with. If you want to compare NodeJS to something in the PHP ecosystem it would be ReactPHP.

Dunno about PHP core, but there is also ReactPHP. https://reactphp.org/

There are many micro-frameworks available like Slim, Mezzio(with Swoole may be), or if you are into async then you can also try Framework X(from core maintainer of ReactPHP). This frameworks have small footprints compare to Laravel, Symfony, etc. Yes, you can't get things like authentication, routing and other out of the box but they can easily be installed and configured to be used.