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The State of Laravel survey

stateoflaravel.com

Laravel celebrated its 10th anniversary a few weeks ago. Today it is the most popular PHP framework used by thousands of developers every day. The emerged ecosystem around Laravel is huge and new trends are popping up all the time. This survey is an attempt to gain insight into the representation of the diverse technologies and behaviors of this outstanding community.

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Common files in PHP packages

Jordi Boggiano researched which files are common in PHP packages.

I queried GitHub's API for the file listing (only the root directory) of all PHP packages listed on packagist.org.

What this let me do is look at what files are commonly present (and not), which is quite interesting to get a picture of the whole ecosystem.

In total, this includes file listings from 78'992 packages (no GitHub API was harmed in the making of this blog post though). And here are a few interesting things that surfaced:

https://seld.be/notes/common-files-in-php-packages

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