8 Essential Questions to Ask Before Using a Laravel Package

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  • laravel-exchange-rates

    A Laravel wrapper package for interacting with the exchangeratesapi.io API.

  • One of the amazing things about Laravel and PHP is the vast ecosystem of community packages available to accelerate your development process. Often, a good package helps you implement complex features in your web application more quickly than writing the code yourself from scratch. I love the feeling of finding a package that does exactly what I need — it keeps the job enjoyable and makes me appreciate the efforts of the open-source community. I also maintain a few open-source packages myself, such as Laravel Exchange Rates, Short URL, Laravel Config Validator, and Favicon Fetcher.

  • short-url

    A Laravel package for creating shortened URLs for your web apps.

  • One of the amazing things about Laravel and PHP is the vast ecosystem of community packages available to accelerate your development process. Often, a good package helps you implement complex features in your web application more quickly than writing the code yourself from scratch. I love the feeling of finding a package that does exactly what I need — it keeps the job enjoyable and makes me appreciate the efforts of the open-source community. I also maintain a few open-source packages myself, such as Laravel Exchange Rates, Short URL, Laravel Config Validator, and Favicon Fetcher.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • laravel-config-validator

    A library for validating your Laravel app's config.

  • One of the amazing things about Laravel and PHP is the vast ecosystem of community packages available to accelerate your development process. Often, a good package helps you implement complex features in your web application more quickly than writing the code yourself from scratch. I love the feeling of finding a package that does exactly what I need — it keeps the job enjoyable and makes me appreciate the efforts of the open-source community. I also maintain a few open-source packages myself, such as Laravel Exchange Rates, Short URL, Laravel Config Validator, and Favicon Fetcher.

  • favicon-fetcher

    A Laravel package for fetching favicons from websites.

  • One of the amazing things about Laravel and PHP is the vast ecosystem of community packages available to accelerate your development process. Often, a good package helps you implement complex features in your web application more quickly than writing the code yourself from scratch. I love the feeling of finding a package that does exactly what I need — it keeps the job enjoyable and makes me appreciate the efforts of the open-source community. I also maintain a few open-source packages myself, such as Laravel Exchange Rates, Short URL, Laravel Config Validator, and Favicon Fetcher.

  • laravel-permission

    Associate users with roles and permissions

  • For example, let's take look at the metrics for Spatie's Laravel Permission package at the time of this writing:

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