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studioespresso/craft-dumper
===========================

Bringing symfony/VarDumper to Craft CMS

5.0.1(2y ago)20250.4k↓19.5%2[1 issues](https://github.com/studioespresso/craft-dumper/issues)4MITPHP

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Dumper for Craft CMS
====================

[](#dumper-for-craft-cms)

Easy dump & "dump&die" functions for Twig.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

This plugin works with Craft CMS 3, 4 or 5.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    ```
     cd /path/to/project

    ```
2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    ```
     composer require studioespresso/craft-dumper

    ```
3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Dumper.

Using Dumper
------------

[](#using-dumper)

When you install the plugin, you'll be able to use ` Symfony\VarDumper` in your Twig templates like this:

```
{{ d(entry) }}

```

Or you can "dump and die"

```
{{ dd(entry) }}

```

Works on strings, arrays, object, etc.

###### Brought to you by [Studio Espresso](https://www.studioespresso.co)

[](#brought-to-you-by-studio-espresso)

###  Health Score

41

—

FairBetter than 87% of packages

Maintenance19

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity41

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity72

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 97.1% 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 ~145 days

Recently: every ~159 days

Total

17

Last Release

865d ago

Major Versions

1.3.1 → 2.0.02019-06-20

2.0.0 → 3.0.0-beta.12022-04-14

3.0.1 → 5.0.0-alpha2023-10-06

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

[![janhenckens](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/755428?v=4)](https://github.com/janhenckens "janhenckens (68 commits)")[![brandonkelly](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47792?v=4)](https://github.com/brandonkelly "brandonkelly (2 commits)")

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Tags

cmsdumperCraftcraftcmscraft-plugin

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