In the last few months various little parts of our custom built CMS were made available as composer installable packages.

Though creating a package takes some time, there are many benefits:

• my colleagues and my future self can benefit from the same documentation that is written for the consumers of the package
• as the quality of the code will reflect on my firm there is an extra incentive to write good code that adheres to standards
• the feedback I get via mail / the issue tracker is a great source of learning
• new versions of a package can easily be distributed to the sites of our clients
• giving back to an the PHP/Laravel community just feels good (certainly when considering how many awesome third party packages get used in all our projects)