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The benefits of creating packages

Original – May 7th 2015 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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)

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