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Top 8 PHP WebSocket Projects

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  1. Workerman

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

  2. AppSignal

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  3. hyperf

    🚀 A coroutine framework that focuses on hyperspeed and flexibility. Building microservice or middleware with ease.

  4. Ratchet

    Asynchronous WebSocket server (by ratchetphp)

    Project mention: Build Real-Time AI Voice Transcription for Web Meetings Fast | dev.to | 2026-03-24

    For Laravel/PHP backends, use Ratchet or delegate the WebSocket relay to a small Node.js sidecar. PHP's blocking I/O model makes it genuinely ill-suited for sustained bidirectional streaming — don't fight it. I've seen teams spend weeks trying to make it work before giving up and spinning up a tiny Node service that took an afternoon.

  5. LaravelS

    LaravelS is an out-of-the-box adapter between Laravel/Lumen and Swoole.

  6. laravel-centrifugo

    🚀 Centrifugo broadcast driver for Laravel

  7. text

    An experiment with WebSockets and the human condition. (by g105b)

  8. client-php

    The official PHP client library for the Polygon REST APIs.

    Project mention: Build an Unusual Options Activity Scanner With Python and Free Data | dev.to | 2026-04-15

    Polygon.io gives you 5 API calls/minute on the free tier. That’s rough for options scanning since you need one call per expiration per symbol. I’d only recommend this if you’re scanning fewer than 20 symbols.

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  10. chat-socket-server

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • Build Real-Time AI Voice Transcription for Web Meetings Fast

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What are some of the best open-source WebSocket projects in PHP? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Workerman 11,547
2 hyperf 6,906
3 Ratchet 6,435
4 LaravelS 3,878
5 laravel-centrifugo 125
6 text 51
7 client-php 35
8 chat-socket-server 10

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