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The benefits of creating packages original

by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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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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