Proven Package Patterns

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Spatie is a 12‑person team with nearly 3 billion downloads across ~300 packages; a holidays package got ~100 PRs in its first week. The built example is Laravel URL AI transformer: it fetches page HTML, pipes content to Laravel AI transformers, stores LD+JSON results in a database, and runs transformations on queues (demo pre-run to avoid flaky AI). Recommended patterns: fire events, allow configurable model/job/action classes, and avoid lots of tiny config flags.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:09About Spatie and packages
3. 5:13Do we still need packages?
4. 10:07Laravel URL AI transformer demo
5. 14:57Handling package flexibility
6. 24:44Patterns for AI-friendly code
7. 26:52Summary and Q&A

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