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youngones/lightspeed
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Simple gRPC alternative for existing projects.

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Lightspeed is a lightweight communication solution for distributed Laravel applications inspired by gRPC. Without Protocol buffers.

What Lightspeed essentially does is run your normal routes, but streams the output over a TCP socket. The data is encoded as [CBOR](https://cbor.io/).

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Via Composer

```
$ composer require youngones/lightspeed
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Server side:

[](#server-side)

1. Define the route you wish to request via Lightspeed:

```
// ./routes/web.php
Route::lightspeed('/test', 'TestController');
```

2. Start the Lightspeed server:

```
$ php artisan lightspeed:server start

```

### Client side:

[](#client-side)

```
// Create an instance of `\YoungOnes\Lightspeed\Client\Client`
$client = new \YoungOnes\Lightspeed\Client\Client();
// Create a request
$request = new \YoungOnes\Lightspeed\Requests\Request('127.0.0.1:9810', '/api/test', ['Authorization' => 'Bearer'])
```

Change log
----------

[](#change-log)

Please see the [changelog](changelog.md) for more information on what has changed recently.

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

```
$ composer test
```

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please see [contributing.md](contributing.md) for details and a todolist.

Security
--------

[](#security)

If you discover any security related issues, please email author email instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [author name](https://github.com/youngones)
- [All Contributors](../../contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

license. Please see the [license file](license.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

17

—

LowBetter than 6% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity31

Early-stage or recently created project

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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