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The story behind our
 open source efforts

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About me Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at SPATIE @freekmurze https://murze.be

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About me phpantwerp.be Dries Vints @driesvints Frederick Vanbrabant @TheEdonian

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Since 2003 Websites, applications and webshops Team 4 developers, 1 manager Specialization Laravel development

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OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

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Open source software We use a lot of it Nginx, Laravel, Ubuntu, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, Beanstalkd, MySQL, Composer, Glide, Homestead, Flysystem, Fractal, Carbon, PHPUnit, NPM, React, jQuery, Java, SSH, Sequel Pro, BackupPC … Basically everything listed in composer.json and package.json

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± 80 packages on Packagist + 1 000 000 downloads A lot of Laravel specific packages, some framework agnostic ones, a few JavaScript packages We create a lot of it Open source software

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Zend Framework 1 PHP world was pretty stale around 2012 Laravel 4: developer happiness, clear syntax Laracasts: miniseries on package development + Travis The first package

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Browsershot: take screenshots of website programmatorically PhantomJS Working in the open People started blogging about it The first package

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Blender: conversion from Zend Framework to Laravel A lot of functionalities that could be helpful to other developers New packages: laravel-newsletter, laravel-medialib, laravel-analytics Opensourcing Blender itself Very positive feedback from the community Beyond the first package

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Every package gets born inside a client project Almost every client project results in a package laravel-sitemap, opening-hours, … Beyond the first package

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Making time Time consuming Coding, writing tests, writing docs, getting the word out Maintenance, responding to issues, reviewing PRs 1000 issues, 750 PRs

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Making time Only plan 4 days a week for client work Extra day for support, learning and opensource efforts Free time

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The benefits of creating packages A lot of learning by coding up the package and writing tests Feedback from the community Free code! Dogfooding

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Requirements Latest version of PHP / Laravel Package reflects the requirements of the project it gets born in Can use latest features: return type hints, null coalescing, anonymous classes PHP 5 is dead (to us) Probably hurts popularity, but nudges community to use latest versions

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TOP 10

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10. laravel-permission $role = Role::create(['name' => 'writer']);
 $role->givePermissionTo('edit articles');
 $user->assignRole('writer');
 $user->can('edit articles’);

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9. laravel-fractal fractal()
 ->collection($books)
 ->transformWith(new BookTransformer())
 ->includeCharacters()
 ->toArray();

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8. laravel-tail php artisan tail

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7. laravel-medialibrary $newsItem->addMedia($file) ->toCollection('images'); 
 $newsItem->getMedia('images')->first()->getUrl(); 
 $newsItem->getMedia('images')->first()->getUrl('thumb');
 
 $newsItem->addMedia($bigFile) ->toCollectionOnDisk('downloads', 's3');

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6. db-dumper Spatie\DbDumper\Databases\MySql::create()
 ->setDbName($databaseName)
 ->setUserName($userName)
 ->setPassword($password)
 ->excludeTables(['table1', 'table2', 'table3'])
 ->dumpToFile('dump.sql');

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5. laravel-analytics Analytics::fetchMostVisitedPages(); Analytics::fetchVisitorsAndPageViews(); 
 Analytics::getTopReferrers();

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4. string string('StartMiddleEnd')
 ->between('Start', 'End')
 ->toUpper(); // outputs "MIDDLE"

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3. laravel-glide GlideImage::create($pathToImage)
 ->modify(['w'=> 50, 'filt'=>'greyscale'])
 ->save($pathToWhereToSaveTheManipulatedImage);

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2. pdf-to-image $pdf = new Spatie\PdfToImage\Pdf('file.pdf');
 $pdf->saveImage($pathToImage);
 
 collect(range(1, $pdf->getNumberOfPages()), function(int $pageNumber) use ($pdf) {
 $pdf->setPage($pageNumber)
 ->saveImage("page{$pageNumber}.jpg");
 });

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1. laravel-backup

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HIGHLIGHTS OUTSIDE TOP 10

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Laravel Menu Menu::macro('main', function () {
 return Menu::new()
 ->action('HomeController@index', 'Home')
 ->action('AboutController@index', 'About')
 ->action('ContactController@index', 'Contact')
 ->setActiveFromRequest();
 });

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Speed up your application 
 by caching the entire response Laravel Responsecache RESPONSE CACHE REQUESTS APP 1 2

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Laravel Translatable $newsItem = new NewsItem; // This is an Eloquent model
 $newsItem
 ->setTranslation('name', 'en', 'Name in English')
 ->setTranslation('name', 'nl', 'Naam in het Nederlands')
 ->save();
 
 $newsItem->name; // Returns 'Name in English'
 $newsItem->getTranslation('name', 'nl');

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https://spatie.be/opensource

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Not free!

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POSTCARDWARE

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Spatie
 Samberstraat 69D 2060 Antwerp
 Belgium

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Future plans No roadmap Depends on the client projects Will probably diminish a bit as the most common problems are solved

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In closing Working on packages has a lot of benefits It’s fun Social aspect Can be recommended to everyone

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QUESTIONS?

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Thank you! https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/open-source-efforts https://murze.be https://spatie.be/opensource