Yannick Lyn Fatt

Staff Writer at Laravel News and Full stack web developer.

EnvKit: A Local Development Stack for Laravel on Windows and macOS image

EnvKit: A Local Development Stack for Laravel on Windows and macOS

EnvKit is a free desktop app that bundles nginx or Apache, multiple PHP versions, databases, and trusted .test HTTPS into one control panel.

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Laravel WhatsApp: Two Backends Behind One Facade image

Laravel WhatsApp: Two Backends Behind One Facade

Laravel WhatsApp wraps both the Meta Cloud API and a whatsapp-web.js sidecar behind a single facade, with a Livewire admin UI for managing sessions, m...

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Turn PHP Attributes Into Docs With Signal image

Turn PHP Attributes Into Docs With Signal

Signal is a PHP library that reads attributes on your classes and methods and turns them into Markdown and JSON documentation through a single command...

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Yammi Audit Log: Track Who Really Made a Change Across Jobs and Queues image

Yammi Audit Log: Track Who Really Made a Change Across Jobs and Queues

A Laravel audit package that records model changes along with the actor, the origin, and a correlation ID, so a change made inside a queued job still...

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NationForge: A Self-Hosted Admin Panel for Civic Organizations image

NationForge: A Self-Hosted Admin Panel for Civic Organizations

NationForge is an open-core Laravel 12 application that gives political movements, civic groups, and community organizations a self-hosted home for co...

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Monitor Laravel Queues, Commands, and Schedulers on Any Driver with Vigilance image

Monitor Laravel Queues, Commands, and Schedulers on Any Driver with Vigilance

A self-hosted dashboard that records the lifecycle of jobs, artisan commands, and scheduled tasks across every queue driver, with manual dispatch and...

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LaraOwl: Self-Hosted Monitoring for Laravel Applications image

LaraOwl: Self-Hosted Monitoring for Laravel Applications

LaraOwl is an open-source, self-hosted observability platform for Laravel that tracks requests, exceptions, queries, and jobs, with a client package t...

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Subscriptionify: Feature-Based Subscription Management for Laravel image

Subscriptionify: Feature-Based Subscription Management for Laravel

Subscriptionify is a gateway-agnostic Laravel package for modeling plans, features, usage quotas, and optional overage billing without tying your appl...

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Refresh Your Laravel Database Without Dropping Every Table image

Refresh Your Laravel Database Without Dropping Every Table

Custom Fresh adds a `fresh:custom` Artisan command that rebuilds your Laravel database while leaving the tables you name untouched.

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Generate Short, URL-Safe IDs From Numbers With Sqids image

Generate Short, URL-Safe IDs From Numbers With Sqids

Sqids is a PHP library that encodes one or more integers into short, URL-safe strings and decodes them back, with options for minimum length, a custom...

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Advanced Eloquent Query Filtering with Filterable image

Advanced Eloquent Query Filtering with Filterable

Filterable is a Laravel package that provides multiple engines for advanced, scalable filtering of Eloquent models, including support for nested JSON...

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Audit Laravel Apps for Security Issues with Checkpoint image

Audit Laravel Apps for Security Issues with Checkpoint

Checkpoint is a dev-only Artisan command that runs 26 static security checks against a Laravel application, covering dependency CVEs, hardcoded secret...

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