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bafs/illuminate-light-collections
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Illuminate collection, without hundreds of Illuminate contracts

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Illuminate Light Collections
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[](#illuminate-light-collections)

This package provides Illuminate Collections minus hundreds of contracts from `Illuminate\Contracts` that are not used by this library.

This library can be used for external libraries or projects that don't depend on Laravel framework.

Install
-------

[](#install)

```
composer req bafs/illuminate-light-collections
```

Why?
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[](#why)

Illuminate collections is a handy library to work will collections, but it requires `illuminate/contracts` which provides hundreds of contracts from the Illuminate framework and that are not useful when working outside the Laravel ecosystem. Only 3 contracts are used by Collections (`Arrayable`, `CanBeEscapedWhenCastToString`, `Jsonable`).

I don't like monkey patching, can I remove it too?
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[](#i-dont-like-monkey-patching-can-i-remove-it-too)

Yes, it's also possible to disable the monkey patching from the [Macroable](https://github.com/illuminate/macroable) library (`illuminate/macroable`). To do so, use the [Demacroable](https://github.com/BafS/Demacroable) package (`bafs/illuminate-demacroable`) in your project (it will replace the Macroable trait with an empty one).

###  Health Score

14

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LowBetter than 2% of packages

Maintenance28

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity17

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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