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vinkla/shield
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A HTTP basic auth middleware for Laravel

9.0.0(3y ago)228363.4k↓13.4%1MITPHP ^8.1

Since Jan 27Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/vinkla/laravel-shield)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/vinkla/shield)[ RSS](/packages/vinkla-shield/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 1mo ago

READMEChangelogDependencies (4)Versions (29)Used By (1)

### README not available

The README for this package hasn't been synced yet. View it on [GitHub](https://github.com/vinkla/laravel-shield).

###  Health Score

46

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FairBetter than 93% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity48

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity82

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 95.3% 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 ~99 days

Recently: every ~268 days

Total

27

Last Release

1189d ago

Major Versions

4.0.0 → 5.0.02020-02-01

5.0.1 → 6.0.02020-03-05

6.0.0 → 7.0.02020-09-08

7.1.0 → 8.0.02022-01-19

8.0.0 → 9.0.02023-02-14

PHP version history (9 changes)0.1.0PHP ^5.5.9 || ^7.0

1.2.0PHP ^5.6.4 || ^7.0

2.0.0PHP ^7.0

2.4.0PHP ^7.1.3

3.0.0PHP ^7.2

4.0.0PHP ^7.4

7.1.0PHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

8.0.0PHP ^8.0

9.0.0PHP ^8.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/63e77154439395019fb74adc3d1402bbba09ab726c74e2448968a1174c6a4415?d=identicon)[vinkla](/maintainers/vinkla)

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Top Contributors

[![vinkla](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/499192?v=4)](https://github.com/vinkla "vinkla (205 commits)")[![dependabot-preview[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/2141?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot-preview[bot] "dependabot-preview[bot] (3 commits)")[![jaswdr](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6409113?v=4)](https://github.com/jaswdr "jaswdr (1 commits)")[![joecohens](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1803556?v=4)](https://github.com/joecohens "joecohens (1 commits)")[![Omranic](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/406705?v=4)](https://github.com/Omranic "Omranic (1 commits)")[![ptondereau](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4287777?v=4)](https://github.com/ptondereau "ptondereau (1 commits)")[![wjgilmore](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/161522?v=4)](https://github.com/wjgilmore "wjgilmore (1 commits)")[![zauni](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/663845?v=4)](https://github.com/zauni "zauni (1 commits)")[![GrahamCampbell](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2829600?v=4)](https://github.com/GrahamCampbell "GrahamCampbell (1 commits)")

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Tags

httpmiddlewarelaravelauthbasicshield

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

### Embed Badge

![Health badge](/badges/vinkla-shield/health.svg)

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