Getting started with ReactPHP

In this talk from Christian Lück, you will learn about the core concepts of async PHP and why you too should care about ReactPHP being a real thing. The talk has a strong focus on sparking the idea that PHP can be way faster and more versatile than you probably thought. Bring along an open mind, and through lots of interesting examples and live demos learn why what sounds crazy at first might soon be a valuable addition in your toolbox.

You’re already familiar with PHP and want to learn what ReactPHP is all about? Then this talk is for you! We will start from scratch and see what it takes to build an application that pushes data from your command line to your browser in real-time. You’re invited to join the interactive demos or lean back and learn more about why an event-driven approach might be the next big thing in making your application faster and more responsive.

Christian Lück is a software engineer with a Master’s degree in Information Systems Engineering and over a decade of experience with PHP, both commercially and as a regular contributor and maintainer of quite a few open source projects. But most importantly, he’s always been passionate about pushing the limits and thinking outside the box. In fact, he’s so passionate about this that he just quit his regular job in order to better focus on some thrilling things ahead