NativePHP/electron

Electron backend for NativePHP. Native PHP lets you build desktop apps for multiple OS with PHP and lets you bundle as tauri or electron apps.

Summary

NativePHP/electron was the Electron-based backend package for the NativePHP framework, a toolchain that lets Laravel developers build cross-platform desktop applications. The repository is marked as archived, and the README states that work has moved to nativephp/desktop. The package itself is written in TypeScript and released under the MIT license.

What it is useful for

The package was designed to give Laravel applications an Electron-based runtime, allowing PHP code to drive a desktop window on the user's machine instead of running in a browser. For engineers maintaining an existing project that depends on nativephp/electron, the source remains available as a reference for how the Electron bridge was implemented. For new projects, the README makes clear that this repository is no longer maintained and points readers to nativephp/desktop as the successor. Anyone investigating behavior in the legacy Electron backend should also note that issues are now handled in the NativePHP/laravel repository rather than here, per the README's instructions.

How engineers can use it

The README does not include installation or integration instructions; the only documented command is composer test, which runs the package's test suite locally. Engineers who need to set up a new project should follow the documentation on the official NativePHP website and the nativephp/desktop repository instead, since the README explicitly redirects new work there. Contributors are pointed to the contributing guide hosted on NativePHP/laravel, and security reports should follow the security policy linked from this repo. Because the repository is archived, no new pull requests will be merged, and readers should treat it as read-only historical material rather than an active dependency. The documented limitations are essentially the archival status itself: there is no commitment to fixes, no updated setup steps, and no active issue tracker on this repository.