Setting Up LaravelS with Swoole in Laradock and Performance Comparison

Introduction: The author wanted to try Swoole with WebSocket and compare Laravel 9 performance using Laradock, noting that the results were similar to vanilla Laravel.

Installation of LaravelS in Laradock: modify the .env file to use PHP 8.1 (or higher), then rebuild the containers with docker‑compose build and verify the installation.

Configure Laravel's HTTP server:

Install a Laravel project (e.g., curl -s "https://laravel.build/laravel9" | bash).

Require the LaravelS package: composer require hhxsv5/laravel-s.

Publish LaravelS configuration: php artisan laravels publish.

Set up Nginx to route static resources to Nginx and dynamic requests to LaravelS with the following server block (code shown as‑is):

upstream laravels {<br/>    # Connect IP:Port<br/>    server workspace:5200 weight=5 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;<br/>    keepalive 16;<br/>}<br/>server {<br/>    listen 80;<br/>    server_name swoole.test;<br/>    root /var/www/laravel9/public;<br/>    index index.php index.html index.htm;<br/>    location / {<br/>        try_files $uri @laravels;<br/>    }<br/>    location @laravels {<br/>        proxy_http_version 1.1;<br/>        proxy_set_header Connection "";<br/>        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;<br/>        proxy_set_header X-Real-PORT $remote_port;<br/>        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;<br/>        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;<br/>        proxy_set_header Scheme $scheme;<br/>        proxy_set_header Server-Protocol $server_protocol;<br/>        proxy_set_header Server-Name $server_name;<br/>        proxy_set_header Server-Addr $server_addr;<br/>        proxy_set_header Server-Port $server_port;<br/>        proxy_pass http://laravels;<br/>    }<br/>    error_log /var/log/nginx/swoole_test_error.log;<br/>    access_log /var/log/nginx/swoole_test_access.log;<br/>}

Additional configuration includes adding to the Laravel .env file:

LARAVELS_LISTEN_IP=workspace<br/>LARAVELS_DAEMONIZE=true

Configure a regular Laravel site with its own Nginx server block (code omitted for brevity) and update the local /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 swoole.test laravel.test Rebuild the Docker containers:

docker compose stop<br/>docker compose build workspace nginx<br/>docker compose up -d redis mysql nginx workspace

Enter the workspace container to start LaravelS: docker exec -it d4940755a928 /bin/bash Performance testing with ApacheBench (AB): two scenarios were run – 100 total requests with concurrency 10, and 1000 total requests with concurrency 20 – comparing Swoole‑backed LaravelS against plain Laravel 9. The request‑per‑second numbers were close, sometimes even favoring Laravel 9, indicating no clear performance advantage.

Conclusion: Using LaravelS with Swoole in a Laradock environment does not produce a significant throughput increase over a standard Laravel 9 setup under the tested conditions.