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sledgehammer/laravel
====================

Use the Sledgehammer Framework as a library in a Laravel project

16.09.0(9y ago)098MITPHP

Since Oct 15Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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Sledgehammer Laravel
====================

[](#sledgehammer-laravel)

Adds sledgehammer goodies to Laravel

- statusbar
- debug ajax calls with DebugR
- Sledgehammer\\dump()
- Curl

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

[](#installation)

Require this package in your composer.json and run composer update

```
"sledgehammer/laravel": "*"

```

(or run `composer require sledgehammer/laravel:*` directly):

After updating composer, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in app/config/app.php

```
'Sledgehammer\Laravel\SledgehammerServiceProvider',

```

Add DebugRMiddleware to the $middleware array in app/Http/Kernel.php 'Sledgehammer\\Laravel\\DebugRMiddleware'

Statusbar
=========

[](#statusbar)

Add `@include('sledgehammer::statusbar')` before the `` and run:

```
artisan vendor:publish

```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

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

Every ~350 days

Total

4

Last Release

3543d ago

Major Versions

13.10.0 → 14.03.02014-03-07

14.03.1 → 16.09.02016-08-31

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/207248?v=4)[Bob Fanger](/maintainers/bfanger)[@bfanger](https://github.com/bfanger)

---

Top Contributors

[![bfanger](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/207248?v=4)](https://github.com/bfanger "bfanger (9 commits)")

---

Tags

frameworklaravelsledgehammer

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