Boot Sequence

When Application::run() or Application::boot() is called, the following steps execute in order:

1. Load .env — vlucas/phpdotenv loads environment variables from your project root. Missing variables do not throw; they simply remain unset.

2. Create Container — A fresh Container instance is created. Router and Generator (OpenAPI) are registered as singletons immediately.

3. Auto-discover bridge providers — Antares reads vendor/composer/installed.json and collects any extra.antares.providers entries from installed packages. Bridge providers (Monolog, Eloquent) are registered this way — no manual registration required.

4. Register service providers — Each class passed to ->providers([...]) is instantiated and its register() method is called with the container.

5. Register route providers (or load cache) — In production (APP_ENV=production) with a valid cache fingerprint, the compiled route cache is loaded directly. Otherwise, each route provider’s register() is called and the OpenAPI controller is added automatically.

6. Wire Dispatcher, ErrorHandler, Pipeline — The Dispatcher, ErrorHandler, and Pipeline are created and stored on the application instance, ready to handle requests.

Cache Fingerprint

The route cache fingerprint is computed from:

• composer.lock
• .env
• All files under app/

If any of these change, the fingerprint changes and the cache is invalidated automatically on the next request.