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coreblue/moat
=============

Password protect your staging websites

v1.0(7y ago)028PHP

Since Oct 3Pushed 7y ago2 watchersCompare

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Moat
====

[](#moat)

This package makes it easy to password protect your Laravel staging websites.

Installation
============

[](#installation)

You can install the package via composer:

```
composer require coreblue/moat
```

Setup
=====

[](#setup)

Register the Moat middleware in the application's route middleware groups.

```
//app/http/Kernel.php
protected $middlewareGroups = [
    'web' => [
        \CoreBlue\Moat\Middleware\ApplyMoat::class,
    ],
];
```

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

To get started with Moat run the following command.

```
php artisan moat:create
```

Once the create command has been run you will be able to run the following commands.

You can enable Moat via:

```
php artisan moat:up
```

You can disable Moat via:

```
php artisan moat:down
```

You can set a new password via:

```
php artisan moat:password
```

You can check the current status via:

```
php artisan moat:status
```

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2781d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/864c0396e55795ccc90c9a15b7631fd5d6ee0df9f78fda98fc6dc74818099dd7?d=identicon)[scotthelps](/maintainers/scotthelps)

---

Top Contributors

[![danhardman](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5691966?v=4)](https://github.com/danhardman "danhardman (1 commits)")

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