Best practices

I’m building a Laravel 12 folder organizer where users may upload large folders (many files / large sizes), and I categorize files by extension and generate a ZIP for download.

Current approach:

  • Process everything in one request

  • Loop through uploaded files once

  • Add files directly from PHP temp upload paths into a ZIP using ZipArchive::addFile()

For large folder uploads, what’s the best approach for performance and scalability?

Also, what would you do specifically to speed up processing for large uploads?

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