The rise of industrial software
The open question, then, is not whether industrial software will dominate, but what that dominance does to the surrounding ecosystem.
Read more [chrisloy.dev]
PHP Ecosystem Deep Dive: The Code Quality Landscape
Some very cool numbers on the PHP ecosystem, gathered by Jean-François Lépin.
Read more [blog.lepine.pro]
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The State of Laravel 2023 results
Here are the result on the survey on the Laravel ecosystem run by Tobias Petry.
Read more [stateoflaravel.com]
State Of Laravel Survey 2023
– stateoflaravel.com - submitted by Tobias Petry
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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The state of the PHP Developer ecosystem in 2021
JetBrains ran their yearly survey on all the things that devs like and use. Here are the results for the PHP ecosystems
Read more [www.jetbrains.com]
The State of Laravel survey
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.
Read more [stateoflaravel.com]
The Laravel package ecosystem
Packages play a big role in the Laravel scene. How big and which packages? Medium user Džuris took the data from the Packagist.org API and filtered out the Laravel packages.
Read more [medium.com]
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.https://seld.be/notes/common-files-in-php-packagesWhat 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:
