15 Lesser known Spatie Laravel Packages and Projects
Povilas from Laravel Daily made a cool video about our packages.
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5 Laravel Packages from Spatie to Help You Create Your Own Blog
I use all of these on freek.dev as well :-)
Read more [dominik-geimer.com]
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Overriding vendor classes
Ever found yourself wanting to make a small tweak to a PHP file in a Composer dependency? Here's how to do it without forking the entire package.
Read more [downing.tech]
Using Laravel's parallel testing inside your package tests
Laravel recently added parallel testing to the framework using the Paratest package which runs PHPUnit in separate parallel processes. Adding support for this in your own package tests is pretty straightforward using orchestral/testbench.
Read more [www.rias.be]
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.
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How we created over 200 PHP and Laravel packages original
I work at and co-own a company named Spatie, which specializes in creating large Laravel applications for our clients. Our team is rather small: we consist of only 10 people. At first glance we are a software development company like there are so many others. But there’s one thing that sets our company apart: we have an open source first policy. We try to create and contribute to open source as much as possible.
Currently we have around 200 open source repositories on GitHub. Our packages have been downloaded nearly 75 million times. They are being downloaded 4,5 million times each month. Probably we will hit 100 million downloads by the end of this year.
We've also just released our premium video course, titled Laravel Package Training. In this course, we use our experience to teach you how to build reliable and maintainable packages.
This all did not happen overnight. Read on to learn the story behind our open source efforts.
Our packages have been downloaded 20 million times original
At Spatie we do a lot of open source work. You can find a list of our packages on the open source section of our website. I'm proud to share that, according to Packagist, the Spatie packages have now been downloaded over 20 million times. The rate at which they are being downloaded is growing too.…
The open source department at Spatie is doing overtime original
Bad title because we don't do overtime at Spatie, but our team has been very busy putting out new open source stuff. In the past weeks our team has released three new packages. In this post I'd like to quickly introduce them too you. sheets First up is spatie/sheets, created by Sebastian. This…
I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.
In an article at Hackernoon, David Gilbertson warns about the dangers of trusting 3rd party packages on npm. He goes into how a package can make unwanted http requests in the browser and how you can protect yourself against that.
It’s been a frantic week of security scares — it seems like every day there’s a new vulnerability. It’s been a real struggle for me personally to pretend like I understand what’s going on when asked about it by family members.
Seeing people close to me get all flustered at the prospect of being “powned” has really put things in perspective for me.
So, it is with a heavy heart that I’ve decided to come clean and tell you all how I’ve been stealing usernames, passwords and credit card numbers from your sites for the past few years.
https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and-passwords-from-your-site-here-s-how-9a8cb347c5b5
The story behind our open source efforts original
This post was first published on 24daysindecember.net Chances are that you've never heard of my company Spatie. We specialise in creating Laravel applications for our clients. Our team is rather small: we consist of only 6 developers and one manager. On first glance we are just a web agency like…
New features in our packages original
Every time our team releases a package I have the habit of writing an introductory blogpost. But after the initial release most pages gain more features through PRs by the community and ourselves. Mostly these new feature go unnoticed. That's why I plan on regularly writings posts on noteworthy…
What Laravel 5.5 means for our packages original
At Spatie we've released a plethora of Laravel packages. Now that Laravel 5.5 has been released most of our packages will get a new (major) version. In this blogpost I'd like to explain how we handle new releases of the framework and what it means for our packages. Preparing for release Laravel has…
Packages that make developing Laravel apps easier original
In this post I'd like to share some of the packages that make developing a Laravel app easier. laravel-debugbar This package really needs no introduction as it is one of the most popular packages around. It's made by Barry Vd. Heuvel and it's a real powerhouse. Once the package is installed it…
Looking back on the year
Laravel News published a nice overview of what happened in the Laravel ecosystem in 2016.
As 2016 is coming to a close it’s a great time to look back on the year and see just how much progress has been made. Laravel had a busy year with 5.3 being released, Laracon, updates to all the components, and now gearing up for the Laravel 5.4 release.To look back on the year I’ve put together a list of some of the hits of 2016 and arranged them by month so you can get a quick overview of all the highlights.
https://laravel-news.com/80-laravel-tutorials-packages-and-resources
The Laravel ecosystem sure is moving fast. For me the best new software that emerged from it was Laravel Valet. I use it for most projects now and can't imagine working on a Vagrant box anymore for my normal day to day work. Hopefully Valet will gain more recognition in the greater PHP community in 2017.
I'm also happy to report that the Laravel / PHP packages my company releases have grown in popularity in 2016.
Total # of downloads of @spatie_be packages according to Packagist
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) 16 december 2016
In 2014: 0 (we had no packages)
In 2015: ±150 000
In 2016: 1 500 000
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Our packages have been downloaded one million times original
I'm very happy to announce that, as of today, our Laravel and PHP packages have been downloaded a million times. We now have more than 80 packages registered on Packagist. All combined they are downloaded around 150 000 times a month, and that number seems to be growing. Our GitHub organisation has…
An interview about the business side of our packages original
I recently was interviewed by Povilas Korop about the business side of our packages.
Our packages are now postcardware original
My company has released a lot of PHP and Laravel packages. According to the packagist stats they have been downloaded for a little over 700 000 times. Up until now they've all been free. That is going to change. Our packages are now postcardware. This means that from now on you are required to send…
Don't use illuminate/support in framework agnostic packages
In our framework agnostic packages we sometimes pull in illuminate/support. This package that's part of the core of Laravel provides some nice string and collection functions. But unfortunately a lot of other stuff gets pulled in as well. In a post on his blog Matthew Allen explains the downsides of requiring illuminate/support.
A lot of framework agnostic Composer packages (PHP) pull in illuminate/support, which contains helper functions and general purpose code used by the Laravel framework. Usually it’s because the support package has nice helper functions like array_get, or because of the nice collection class.The helpers functions are nice, but I don’t think developers appreciate the ramifications of choosing to pull that package in. Everyone is afraid to get criticized for reinventing the wheel, so packages are pulling in 6000+ lines of code to avoid writing isset($arr[$k]) ? $arr[$k] : null themselves.
http://mattallan.org/2016/dont-use-illuminate-support/
One of the most useful functions of illuminate/support is the Collection class. In a thread on Reddit Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel, seems to agree that requiring illuminate/support isn't a good idea and that the Collection class could be extracted to it's own package. Let's hope that'll happen in the near future.
In the new major versions of our framework agnostic packages we'll swap out illuminate/support in favor of packages like the ones mentioned at the end of Matthew's post.
EDIT: Meanwhile Tighten has released a Collections-only split from Laravel's Illuminate Support.
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:
Creating your own development tools
Last week Jan Oris gave a talk on creating your own development tools at the Limburg PHP User Group. He touches on the why and how of creating packages as well. I hope some of you will start creating packages too after seeing this.
https://youtu.be/KTdA7kf2cUM?t=1m21s
