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Proven Package PatternsLaravel Live Denmark 20262026-08-20
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…
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Uncharted packageslaravelday 20252025-11-20
Spatie releases total downloads near two billion and surfaces ten small but concrete packages: a Horizon watch subcommand that detects file changes and…
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Implementing multi-tenancy in a Laravel appForum PHP 20252025-10-09
Demo of the open-source Laravel multi-tenency package shows a working multi-database setup where a landlord DB maps domains to tenant DBs and the app swaps the…
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Uncharted packagesForum PHP 20252025-10-09
Company open source hits almost two billion downloads and maintains about 350 packages; eight small Laravel packages get demonstrated with concrete claims and…
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Fantastic functions and where to find themPHP UK Conference 20242024-02-15
Claims specific features and demos: a CLI renderer termwind uses HTML classes to style terminal output; concurrency via process control fork and a fork package…
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Freek Van der Herten :: Uncharted PackagesLaracon EU 20242024-02-05
Three hundred packages power real apps and together hit about 900 million downloads with ~45 million a month and a billion imminent; ten concrete utilities are…
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Implementing AI for fun and profitPHP fwdays'23 conference2023-08-12
Company builds and OSS reach 607 million downloads and 30 million monthly pulls, and the concrete claims are: uses OpenAI API with git diff prompt to generate…
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Enjoying Laravel DataLaracon US 20232023-07-19
Spatie's Laravel-Data provides a single data-object definition that replaces duplicate attribute lists across form requests, API resources and front-end types…
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Fantastic functions and where to find themphpday 20222022-05-19
Shows concrete hacks and libraries: demonstrates invade using PHP reflection to read private properties and call private methods (works in demo), builds a Fork…
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Fantastic functions and where to find themLaracon EU 20222022-04-26
Shows concrete concurrency demos: uses pcntl_fork to run parent and child branches, socket_pair + read/write for IPC and waitpid polling to collect results…
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Event Sourcing in LaravelLaracon EU Online 20212021-01-18
A runnable demo shows an app called Larabank built with the laravel event sourcing package, storing every change in a stored events table and rebuilding views…
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Behind the Scenes of FlareLaracon AU 20192019-10-31
Flare is an open-source Laravel exception tracker maintained by Spatie; the talk explains its engineering choices for running in production at scale. It…
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Our Secret ProjectLaracon EU 20192019-08-28
A Laravel-specific error page called Ignition replaces Whoops, ships as the default in Laravel 6 and installs on 5.5+, shows original Blade views, route name…
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Handling media in a Laravel applicationLaracon EU 20182018-08-30
A Laravel package that actually attaches files to Eloquent models and generates usable assets on demand demonstrates concrete results and workflows: media…
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Creating a realtime dashboard with PHP and websocketsDutch PHP Conference 20172017-06-29
A single page fullscreen dashboard updates tiles without reloads using Laravel + Vue + Pusher; Laravel schedules jobs to fetch APIs, fires broadcast events…
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Taking Care of Backups with LaravelPHP UK Conference 20172017-02-16
A concrete backup workflow: a package called laravel backup dumped MySQL and zipped application files, copies archives to multiple disks (local and S3), and…
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Taking care of backups with LaravelLaracon EU 20162016-08-23
Package called laravel-backup claims easy backups for small teams and shows concrete tooling: 125,000 downloads, uses mysqldump + zip + S3 (any Flysystem…
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