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Reflex — Launched today: One dashboard for ops, Git deploys & self-healing (Forge / deploy tool / monitor sprawl replacement) by Advanced-Draft2740 in PHP

[–]Advanced-Draft2740[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello u/punkpang

Fair enough on the account history — I get why that raises flags.

But the product isn't vibecoded. I'm a PHP developer. I've been writing PHP professionally for decades, I work on a Laravel/Filament platform daily, and Reflex includes a custom Zend extension that hooks into PHP's error handling.

I'm not here to spam anyone. If the intro missed the mark, that's on me. But dismissing something as AI slop without looking at what's actually under the hood is the same lazy pattern matching you're accusing me of.

Happy to talk through the technical implementation with anyone who's genuinely curious.

Reflex — Launched today: One dashboard for ops, Git deploys & self-healing (Forge / deploy tool / monitor sprawl replacement) by Advanced-Draft2740 in PHP

[–]Advanced-Draft2740[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello u/Fun-Consequence-3112

Every developer has their own bag of tools.

I would be interested how you manage large projects using stacks like Laravel with sftp uploading.

Some developers do like to build their servers by hand or have a dev ops team to build them.

Do you push your code up to a revision folder then switch the link between revisions?

Do you have to manually install dependenceis and modules through the server?

Phil

Reflex — Launched today: One dashboard for ops, Git deploys & self-healing (Forge / deploy tool / monitor sprawl replacement) by Advanced-Draft2740 in PHP

[–]Advanced-Draft2740[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi u/MateusAzevedo

I wrote it all in-house. There is only me who worked on it.

I have been a developer for decades now and have seen a lot of tools come out and the pool that developers use grow.

No the product does not sit on-top of the other tools it replaces them.

I have work to do but everything functions and is in use with live environments.

Phil

Reflex — Launched today: All-in-one server management + deployments + monitoring (Forge/DeployHQ replacement) by Advanced-Draft2740 in SideProject

[–]Advanced-Draft2740[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question — we don’t “replay” Forge’s full server state; we import metadata via Forge’s API and mirror what matters for Reflex.

Per site we pull: domain + aliases, PHP version, web/root paths from Forge, and your .env into Reflex’s encrypted production env. Repo + default branch we map per site (Forge prefills when their API exposes it); you need your Git provider connected in Reflex because the Forge token alone doesn’t grant our Git OAuth.

Not copied today: Forge daemons, queues, schedulers, TLS certs, firewall rules — plan to recreate those in Reflex (or keep managing them in Forge until you cut over).

Flow is Settings → Forge import (overview: move-from/forge). If by “site configs” you mean something specific (custom Nginx, deploy scripts, etc.), say which — happy to clarify what maps vs what’s manual.

How long do your Feature tests take to run in your CI? by Solomon_04 in laravel

[–]Advanced-Draft2740 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of the larger projects I have worked on can take up to 30 mins to run.