xDebug VS React

Compare xDebug vs React and see what are their differences.

xDebug

Xdebug — Step Debugger and Debugging Aid for PHP (by xdebug)

React

Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP. (by reactphp)
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xDebug React
28 40
3,046 8,815
0.8% 0.6%
8.9 3.9
7 days ago 23 days ago
PHP PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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xDebug

Posts with mentions or reviews of xDebug. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-24.

React

Posts with mentions or reviews of React. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-05.
  • Getting started with asynchronous PHP using ReactPHP
    4 projects | dev.to | 5 Mar 2024
    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.
  • Understanding Concurrency in PHP
    1 project | dev.to | 29 Jun 2023
    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.
  • Which FW should I use for the link shortening service?
    1 project | /r/PHPhelp | 26 Jun 2023
    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).
  • How are folks feeling about the React team's push toward server components?
    6 projects | /r/reactjs | 18 May 2023
    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.
  • PHP Swoole or OpenSwoole?
    3 projects | /r/PHP | 13 Feb 2023
    https://reactphp.org/ of course.
  • I don’t get all the hate for PHP and at this point I am too afraid to ask.
    7 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 7 Feb 2023
    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.
  • Why does a lot of developers hate PHP?
    1 project | /r/PHP | 31 Jan 2023
    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.
  • Weekly help thread
    5 projects | /r/PHP | 21 Nov 2022
  • Is it possible that PHP will ever get async/await functions?
    9 projects | /r/PHP | 27 Oct 2022
    Dunno about PHP core, but there is also ReactPHP. https://reactphp.org/
  • Do I need Laravel for an HTTP API project? If so, why?
    5 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 1 Oct 2022
    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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xDebug and React you can also consider the following projects:

PHPDBG

Amp - A non-blocking concurrency framework for PHP applications. 🐘

XHProf - XHProf is a function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP and has a simple HTML based user interface.

Ratchet - Asynchronous WebSocket server

PHP Debug Bar - Debug bar for PHP

Workerman - An asynchronous event driven PHP socket framework. Supports HTTP, Websocket, SSL and other custom protocols.

Kint - Kint - a powerful and modern PHP debugging tool.

Swoole - 🚀 Coroutine-based concurrency library for PHP

Tracy - 😎 Tracy: the addictive tool to ease debugging PHP code for cool developers. Friendly design, logging, profiler, advanced features like debugging AJAX calls or CLI support. You will love it.

Icicle - Icicle is a PHP library for writing asynchronous code using synchronous coding techniques

PHPBench - PHP Benchmarking framework

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