spatie/async

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2815 stars · 184 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A PHP library providing a small, easy-to-use wrapper around PHP's PCNTL extension for running code in parallel processes. It offers a pool-based API with promise-like then/catch/timeout hooks for managing asynchronous tasks.

Use cases

• run php tasks in parallel
• execute background processes in php
• speed up batch processing with multiprocessing
• run closures asynchronously in php
• parallelize cpu-bound work in php scripts
• handle process timeouts and errors in parallel php

When to choose

• you need simple parallel execution in PHP without heavy queue infrastructure
• you're on Linux with PCNTL available and want a lightweight process pool
• you want promise-style success/error/timeout handling for child processes

When to avoid

• you're on Windows or shared hosting without PCNTL
• you need distributed or persistent background job queues (use a message queue instead)
• you need true async I/O within a single thread rather than multiprocessing

Facets

library · maturity active

concurrency developer-tools developer-tools performance backend php cli parallel-processing pcntl process-pool async-php linux

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