Free:
- Breeze
- Cashier
- Dusk
- Echo
- Horizon
- Jetstream
- Mix
- Octane
- Sail
- Sanctum
- Scout
- Socialite
- Telescope
- Valet
Paid:
- Envoyer
- Forge
- Nova
- Spark
- Vapor
I don't want to come across as "nobody should give Laravel money," to be clear. I'm just observing that Laravel is essentially a commercial open-source enterprise in a way that Rails and Django aren't. Models like this seem to be a bit more common in the PHP world. (e.g., Sensio Labs makes their money by teaching and consulting on Symfony, Laravel LLC makes money from Laravel add-on services, but Basecamp makes money from the SaaS applications they're building on top of Rails and is not trying to monetize Rails itself.)
It's just that the enterprise was Basecamp and the other 37 Signals apps. They benefited enormously from the extra eyeballs on their framework, not least during the infamous "hey, we built this massive web framework in part around the incorrect assumption that GET requests don't need to be idempotent and then encouraged everyone to use it" time.
They had no services to sell but they had a keen commercial imperative.
Tell me more. I remember when Rails was first released but missed that entire saga.
Basically, well after they'd released the framework they had to change the Rails scaffolding (and I think their own apps) because parts of the scaffolding (CRUD deletes) would use GET to do the action that should only be done as POST. They discovered it about the time link-prefetching was invented ;-)
Basically, browsers were pre-fetching all the clever scaffolded delete URLs and destroying records, seemingly at random.
I was really impressed with Rails at the time but stayed well away from the scaffolded code in production, and I was gobsmacked by the idea that people talking about a clever, opinionated framework that did the right thing and produced magical, clean, elegant code to rescue you from terrible alternatives did not understand that GET requests should be idempotent.
Edit: here is one bit about it:
https://dhh.dk/arc/000455.html
The unearned high-mindedness of this still makes me chuckle.
- Breeze: authentication starter kit
- Cashier: payment processing through Stripe or Paddle
- Dusk: automated browser testing
- Echo: real-time broadcasting
- Horizon: queue handler
- Jetstream: application scaffolding
- Mix: frontend asset compilation
- Octane: serverless Laravel
- Sail: Laravel Docker environment
- Sanctum: SPA authentication
- Scout: search engine
- Socialite: OAuth provider authentication
- Telescope: application monitoring
- Valet: macOS developer environment
Paid:
- Envoyer: zero-downtime deployment service
- Forge: Laravel hosting via AWS, DigitalOcean, and more
- Spark: application scaffolding kit
- Vapor: serverless Laravel hosting via AWS
I really do need to look at all of this stuff again, because I'm very open to not running my own VMs/services for a couple of apps.