https://luth.io/tags/vivacity/ Recent content in Vivacity on Luther Monson Hugo en Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:20:00 -0700 https://luth.io/blog/2026/10/composer-without-php-vivacity/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:20:00 -0700 https://luth.io/blog/2026/10/composer-without-php-vivacity/ <p>The pitch for <a href="https://github.com/ephpm/ephpm">ePHPm</a> is one binary in place of php-fpm, nginx and Redis. There was always a hole in it though. To deploy a PHP app you still need to run <code>composer install</code>. That drags PHP and <code>composer.phar</code> back onto the box or into the container build, just for that one step. <code>ephpm composer install</code> now runs a pure-Rust, Composer-compatible installer called <a href="https://github.com/Adelagric/vivacity">vivacity</a> inside the ePHPm binary. One binary serves the app and installs its dependencies. On Windows that works with no PHP installed at all. Getting it right took five upstream PRs and a fork. It also took a docs rewrite that took back claims we&rsquo;d already made. And I had to teach <code>ephpm</code> to pretend to be <code>php</code>.</p>