Introducing 9 Laravel Packages to Boost Your Workflow 🚀
Jean-Marc Strauven
After years of working with Laravel in real-world projects, I’ve decided to give back to the community by releasing a set of open-source packages. Each of them is designed to solve a specific pain point I’ve faced in daily development — cleanly, modularly, and without unnecessary complexity.
This is the beginning of a growing ecosystem under the Grazulex namespace — all packages are open-source, documented, and actively maintained. Let’s take a look!
🧱 Laravel Arc
Type-safe Data Transfer Objects
Define DTOs using clean YAML, with automatic validation and collection support.
Perfect for service layers, APIs, and background jobs.
🔀 Laravel Flowpipe
Composable Pipelines for Laravel
A modern alternative to Laravel's native Pipeline, supporting conditional steps, nested flows, and flow tracing.
🧠 Laravel Statecraft
State Machines for Eloquent Models
Bring state management to your models with clear transitions, guards, and visual clarity.
🛡️ Laravel Safeguard
Security & Config Checks
Run declarative checks to ensure your app is safe: missing policies, public routes, weak config? Detect and stop them.
🧪 Laravel TDDraft
Write Exploratory TDD Scenarios
Use plain English to describe test behavior — automatically converted to executable Pest tests. Great for prototyping and team collaboration.
🕵️ Laravel Snapshot
Audit Model States Over Time
Capture before/after snapshots of your models to detect changes, validate behaviors, and prevent regressions.
🗺️ Laravel Atlas
Application Mapping
Scan your Laravel app and generate visual maps of your models, jobs, services, events, and more — as Blade, Mermaid, or JSON.
🔐 Laravel Configcrypt
Encrypted Configuration Management
Easily encrypt and decrypt sensitive values in .env or Laravel config files. Works great with CI/CD and Git.
🧰 Laravel DevToolbox
Swiss-army Artisan CLI
Inspect, debug, and explore your app from the command line. Discover models, relationships, bindings, and more.
📦 All packages available on GitHub
If any of these tools can help you improve your workflow, feel free to try them, give feedback, or contribute.
Thanks for reading — and happy coding!
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Jean-Marc Strauven
Jean-Marc Strauven
Jean-Marc (aka Grazulex) is a developer with over 30 years of experience, driven by a passion for learning and exploring new technologies. While PHP is his daily companion, he also enjoys diving into Python, Perl, and even Rust when the mood strikes. Jean-Marc thrives on curiosity, code, and the occasional semicolon. Always eager to evolve, he blends decades of experience with a constant hunger for innovation.