Swoole

Health v2 · maintenance only

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18917 stars · 3149 forks observed · 2026-10-13

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-10-19, confidence 0.98

Swoole is a PHP extension that provides an event‑driven networking engine and coroutine runtime. It enables building high‑performance, concurrent network services such as HTTP APIs, WebSocket servers, and TCP/UDP gateways without spawning a PHP process per request.

Use cases

• build a high‑throughput HTTP API server in PHP
• create a real‑time WebSocket chat service
• implement a TCP or UDP gateway for IoT devices
• run concurrent background jobs with coroutine workers
• serve millions of simultaneous connections with low memory overhead

When to choose

• You need ultra‑low latency and high concurrency for PHP services.
• Your application must handle many persistent connections (WebSocket, TCP, UDP).
• You want to write asynchronous I/O code using coroutines instead of callbacks.

When to avoid

• You are limited to environments where installing PHP extensions is not possible.
• Your project requires pure PHP code without native extensions for portability.
• You need a full‑stack framework with built‑in ORM, templating, and routing beyond low‑level networking.

Facets

library · maturity active

http-server websocket http-client web-development backend networking windows cli php-extension coroutine event-driven high-concurrency async-io tcp-server udp-server event-loop linux macos docker

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