If you are here, you love Laravel. I understand Laravel is just amazing; it's a tool that allows you to create something from nothing. After years of working as a developer, I found myself in the position to understand that Laravel is not just a Framework; it is an ecosystem.
Usually, we fall into Laravel through the framework by looking front a list of curated packages for the framework. I want to change the perspective and present the professionals who bring those packages alive. I'm taking this approach to remember that those exceptional professionals are still humans like us but with a resilient spirit and a grand vision. GitHub Accounts or Website linked to the Name. These are just my top 3 package selections.
- Taylor Otwell 🇺🇸 - The Creator. He starts the revolution. Thanks, Space Pilgrim.
- I discovered some cool interviews and podcasts with Taylor about Laravel's history and some interesting insides; I think it could be nice to save and share those:
- Transistor Podcasting - Taylor Otwell: "PHP (and a cheap laptop) changed my life"
- Projects:
- Why not? The Laravel Framework itself.
- Laravel Forge - Server Management solution provided by Laravel.
- Laravel Vapor - Serverless deployment platform for Laravel powered by AWS.
- I discovered some cool interviews and podcasts with Taylor about Laravel's history and some interesting insides; I think it could be nice to save and share those:
- Nuno Maduro 🇵🇹 - Console Master 💻 - Respect 🙅🏽. One of (...but) my favorite Artisans out there. Working on the Laravel Core, Forge, and, Vapor. You should check these packages by Nuno: PEST, Laravel Zero, and PHP Insights.
- Dries Vints 🇧🇪 - Related to almost all Laravel first-party Packages.
- Mior Muhammad Zaki 🇲🇾 - Related to Laravel Scout, Nova and the Framework. VILT and TALL stacks.
- Claudio Dekker 🇳🇱 - Related to VILT Stack, Inertia.
- James Brooks 🇬🇧 - Related to Envoyer and Forge project from Laravel. Top Package: Cachet
- Mohamed Said 🇪🇬 - Not a maintainer anymore but forever the Queue Master 🎛️. Work into almost all Laravel first-party Packages. Mohamed is the most knowledgeable professional about the Laravel Queues module; you should check all of his work and educational content related to this topic: Laravel Queues in Action). Nowadays, he works as an independent consulter and delivers much knowledge on Laracast.
- Jonathan Reinink 🇺🇸 - Did you know the VILT Stack? This man it's the responsible.
- Caleb Porzio 🇺🇸 - Did you know the TALL Stack? This man it's the responsible. He also it's the creator of Alpine.js.
- David Hemphill 🇺🇸 - Co-creator of Laravel Nova. If you don't know about this product, you should. Trust me.
- Freek Van der Herten 🇧🇪- The Leader behind Spatie, the most package creator for the Laravel Framework.
- Marcel Porcio 🇩🇪 - The main developer behind BeyondCo. BeyondCo it's the major creator of IDE and Visual Tools for Developers.
- Barry vd. Heuvel 🇳🇱 - Front Laravel CORS to Laravel IDE, debuggers, and more. He is one of the best friends of any Laravel/PHP developer.
- Frank de Jonge 🇳🇱 - EventSaucePHP
- Ryan Chandler 🇬🇧 - Ryan is one of the most curious artisans in the community. He's everywhere, working on many packages around the PHP and the Laravel community. His deep knowledge of software moved him to create packages like PXP, Statan, and Orbit.
- Anthony Rappa 🇺🇸 - A LOT of resources for Laravel Education and some Cool (And Useful packages). Top GitHub Developer from New York.
- Jordi Boggiano 🇨🇭 - Do you know Composer? Yes, he put a lot of code there.
- Roman Pronskiy 🇳🇱 - One of the Leaders working on JetBrains and The PHP Foundation. He's one of the responsible for the creation of the PHP Foundation, the most important entity nowadays related to PHP language.
- Sebastian Bergmann 🇩🇪 - The brain behind PHPUnit. Yes, the software you use for Unit Test and the main package behind PEST.
- Nils Adermann 🇩🇪 - Co-Founder of Packagist. You know this project if you created any package before.
- Francisco Madeira 🇵🇹 - He just appears to be like the next generation Artisan. He's working with Nuno Maduro in Termwind. He's also the responsible for the integration of i18n between Laravel and Vue with laravel-vue-i18n.