Slow performance on first load in Windows

[alan614]

What were you trying to do?

We built a small app using Laravel 11 with Livewire V3.

What happened?

We noticed all pages took a significant amount of time the first time they're loaded

How to reproduce the bug

After running the build with nativephp and installing it, we opened the Developer tools to observe the page loads. Going through even the default dashboard Jetstream can take upwards of 3 seconds to load. Loading the profile page that comes bundled with jetstream without any modification takes even longer. This only occurs the first time the page loads, subsequence visits only takes < 1 second. The slowdown comes back after windows is restartted.

We also noticed the same slowdown with just Laravel Herd instead of building with nativephp and found a similar issue: beyondcode/herd-community#801 (comment)

The advice on disabling windows defender scanning resolved the performance issue and the nativephp build loads pages near instantly afterwards.

Package Versions

{
"installed": [
{
"name": "nativephp/electron",
"direct-dependency": true,
"homepage": "https://github.com/nativephp/electron",
"source": "https://github.com/NativePHP/electron/tree/0.9.0",
"version": "0.9.0",
"description": "Electron wrapper for the NativePHP framework.",
"abandoned": false
},
{
"name": "nativephp/laravel",
"direct-dependency": false,
"homepage": "https://github.com/nativephp/laravel",
"source": "https://github.com/NativePHP/laravel/tree/0.7.0",
"version": "0.7.0",
"description": "Laravel wrapper for the NativePHP framework.",
"abandoned": false
},
{
"name": "nativephp/php-bin",
"direct-dependency": false,
"homepage": "https://nativephp.com",
"source": "https://github.com/NativePHP/php-bin/tree/0.5.6",
"version": "0.5.6",
"description": "PHP binaries used by the NativePHP framework",
"abandoned": false
}
]
}

PHP Version

8.4.5

Laravel Version

11.31

Node Version

23

Which operating systems have you seen this occur on?

Windows

OS version

win 11 (24H2) OS Build 26100.3476

Notes

Is there a more optimal solution without requiring users to configure their windows defender exceptions? Did we miss a step during the build?

[DevRaeph]

I'm having the same issue. I think Zephpyr's bundled version is running faster, but I'm not able to test it, because of and path issue.

[avazquez-bit]

I had a similar issue but my app constantly consumes API data on every reload or page change, si I decided to sync data locally to get some fasteer changes and page loads and it work, but I have same issue on windows... Well my partners says i actually use it on linux and here runs perfect at the moment it no crashes or goes slow...

But with Windows is another story, to start there the app start with a big delay (in comparison with linux) when the app is started (clicked) until the main window appers take more than 15 seconds while in linux take around 7 seconds... however when app started works fine for a while, but I dont know what happens, but in after a usage time it becomes slowly and a partner says that checking task manager app was comsuming more than 2GB of RAM, in linux that neves has happen

[labomatik]

We got the same issue also, what we did at first was to disable the live analyse of the antivirus, it seems to speed a bit but not that much...