I'm Daniel, a solo dev from Italy. I built LaraPlugins.io to solve a specific pain point I kept hitting: finding a Laravel package, installing it, and only realizing weeks later that it was abandoned or incompatible with the latest PHP version.
It’s a directory that assigns an automated "Health Score" to packages based on maintenance, testing, and community signals (not just popularity).
The Stack:
Backend: Laravel running on Octane (FrankenPhp) for high performance.
Admin: Filament PHP (which has been a joy to work with).
Queues: Heavy use of Redis queues to ingest stats from Packagist/GitHub in the background and also for the heavy cache usage i applied.
Cloudflare: Everything is cached in cloudflare after the first load so even big traffic should not impact the server machine directly.
Workers: Managed via Laravel Horizon running in a single Docker container.
Frontend: Blade templates + Tailwind CSS.