Architecture Overview

Welcome! This section is a look under the hood of SuperNative, the engine that powers native rendering in NativePHP for Mobile v4. It explains how your Blade templates become real SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose views, how state flows between PHP and the screen, and why the whole thing is fast.

These pages describe the internals as they exist today. SuperNative is in beta and moving quickly, so details may evolve — the concepts, however, are stable.

Table of Contents#

• About the New Architecture — why we rebuilt rendering from the ground up, and what it means for your apps.

Rendering#

• The Renderer — the rendering system at the heart of SuperNative, and the goals that shaped it.
• Render, Publish, and Mount — the three-phase pipeline that turns your PHP into pixels.
• Cross-Platform Implementation — how one shared core keeps iOS and Android in perfect agreement.
• Subtree Reuse — the optimizations that make re-rendering cheap, automatically.
• Threading Model — which threads do what, and how your UI stays responsive.

Build Tools#

• Embedded PHP — how a full PHP runtime ends up inside your app, built in lockstep with the framework.

Reference#

• Glossary — every term used in these pages, defined in one place.

If anything here is unclear or you'd like more depth on a particular topic, we'd love to hear from you.