Laravel ecosystem

Deep dives on Laravel packages and adjacent tools: Boost, Filament, Horizon, testing stacks, and ecosystem projects worth evaluating before you adopt them.

Articles in this category

• Best websites to discover Laravel packages (and how to evaluate quality)

  Packagist is the source of truth. GitHub, Laravel News, and curated lists help you judge quality and maintenance before installing.

• How do you schedule blog posts in Laravel without a publish cron job?

  Use status=published with a future published_at and a query scope—no extra scheduler job required. How Aviwebsquad queues editorial content weeks ahead.

• Building Aviwebsquad: a Laravel + Inertia CMS I actually use

  A build log of the Aviwebsquad CMS—Filament admin, Inertia + Svelte public site, MCP publishing, and the trade-offs I accepted shipping solo.

• What Is Laravel Boost? AI-Friendly Tooling for Laravel Projects
• What Is Laravel Rector? Automated Refactoring for Modern PHP

  Rector is a tool that upgrades and refactors PHP codebases with rulesets; Laravel teams use it for framework upgrades, typed properties, and dead-code cleanup. Learn how it works and how to adopt it safely.

• What Is Laravel Orchid? An Admin Platform for Laravel Applications

  Laravel Orchid is an open-source package that provides screens, forms, charts, and RBAC patterns for building admin areas in Laravel. Learn how it compares to Filament, Nova, and custom React dashboards.

• What is FilamentPHP? A practical intro for Laravel teams

  Filament is a Laravel toolkit for admin panels and internal tools. It speeds up CRUD, forms, tables, and dashboards using Livewire.

• Filament vs Inertia for admin panels (Laravel 13): how to choose

  Choosing between Filament and Inertia for internal tools: speed, flexibility, auth, permissions, and long-term maintenance — with a decision checklist.