Handling media
 in a Laravel app

Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at SPATIE @freekmurze https://spatie.be https://flareapp.io https://ohdear.app https://freek.dev

Open source software

https://spatie.be/open-source

Some statistics on our open source work ± 250 public repositories on GitHub August 2016: ± 800 000 downloads August 2017: ± 5 000 000 downloads August 2018: ± 17 000 000 downloads August 2019: ± 45 000 000 downloads ± 2 700 000 downloads a month https://freek.dev/the-story-behind-our-open-source-efforts

Postcardware

Spatie
 Samberstraat 69D
 2060 Antwerp
 Belgium


https://spatie.be/open-source/postcards

Let's talk 
 about media

The problem User uploaded content Where to store it all? How to retrieve it? How to optimize images?

The problem Boring code to write Need the same things in every project Write it slightly different in each project

Laravel 
 Medialibrary

Laravel Medialibrary Associate files with Eloquent models Can group media into collections Image conversions Uses multiple filesystems

Laravel Medialibrary Optimize converted images Custom image generators Customize directory structure Custom attributes

https://docs.spatie.be/laravel-medialibrary

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Demo

Wrapping up

Resources https://docs.spatie.be/laravel-medialibrary/v7
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lq_6JLR2H8
 
 https://github.com/spatie/laravel-medialibrary

Future plans JavaScript components
 
 Uploads
 
 Release Q1 2020

Teamwork Sebastian De Deyne
 @sebdedeyne
 
 Willem Van Bockstal
 @willemvbockstal
 
 Alex Vanderbist
 @alexvanderbist
 
 Brent Roose
 @brendt_gd

Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at SPATIE @freekmurze https://spatie.be https://flareapp.io https://ohdear.app https://freek.dev