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kyledoesdev/essentials
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Essentials for my Laravel applications.

v0.0.9(2w ago)0548MITPHPPHP ^8.4|^8.5CI passing

Since Sep 6Pushed 1mo agoCompare

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kyledoesdev/essentials
----------------------

[](#kyledoesdevessentials)

Essential utilities for my Laravel applications — the helpers, macros and generators I'd otherwise copy between projects.

### Installation

[](#installation)

```
composer require kyledoesdev/essentials
```

### Features

[](#features)

**Timezone detection** — `timezone()` resolves the timezone for the current request from the authenticated user, an IP geo lookup, then `config('app.timezone')`. Results are cached per IP address.

**Carbon macro** — `Carbon::parse($date)->inUserTimezone()` shifts an instance into that timezone.

**Action generator** — `php artisan make:action CreateUserAction` scaffolds action classes into `app/Actions`.

**Developer middleware** — `IsDeveloper` aborts with a 403 unless the authenticated user has `is_dev`.

**Model stats** — `HasStatsAfterEvents` records created and deleted counts through spatie/laravel-stats.

**String helpers** — `toSafeFileName()` strips characters that break downloads.

### Configuration

[](#configuration)

```
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=essentials-config
```

### Requirements

[](#requirements)

- Laravel 12+
- PHP 8.4 / 8.5

### License

[](#license)

essentials is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

### Credits

[](#credits)

Created by [kyledoesdev](https://github.com/kyledoesdev)

###  Health Score

45

—

FairBetter than 91% of packages

Maintenance95

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity52

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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

Every ~41 days

Recently: every ~51 days

Total

9

Last Release

15d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v0.0.1PHP ^8.4

v0.0.8PHP ^8.4|^8.5

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b8ba00da88d61aceeb463ea5744a7ca6e6d9f86c3fb89b90189f422e951f3483?d=identicon)[kyledoesdev](/maintainers/kyledoesdev)

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Top Contributors

[![kyledoesdev](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/55156513?v=4)](https://github.com/kyledoesdev "kyledoesdev (24 commits)")

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Tags

laravelessentialskyledoesdev

###  Code Quality

TestsPest

Code StyleLaravel Pint

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