We all use third party packages in our Laravel applications, and even Laravel itself is composed of packages. But how do they work? How do you pick the best packages? What can packages actually do? In this episode Laravel's most prolific package authors join us and answer these questions and many more.

• Freek Van der Herten, Twitter - https://twitter.com/freekmurze
• Freek’s blog - https://freek.dev/
• Spatie - https://spatie.be/
• Marcel Pociot, Twitter - https://twitter.com/marcelpociot
• Beyond Code - https://beyondco.de/
• Marcel’s website - https://pociot.dev/
• Laravel Docs: Packages - https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/packages
• Spatie: Ray - https://spatie.be/products/ray
• Laravel: IDE Helper - https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper
• Laravel: Debug Bar - https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar
• Barry Van der Heuvel, GitHub - https://github.com/barryvdh
• Fruitcake - https://fruitcake.nl/
• Valet - https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/valet
• Expose - https://github.com/beyondcode/expose
• Laravel: Illuminate - https://github.com/illuminate
• Torch - https://github.com/mattstauffer/Torch
• Proxy Package - https://packagist.org/packages/fideloper/proxy
• Guzzle - https://packagist.org/packages/guzzlehttp/guzzle
• Tinker - https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/tinker
• Tinkerwell - https://tinkerwell.app/
• Faker - https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
• Ignition - https://github.com/facade/ignition
• Laravel Docs: Sail - https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/sail
• Laravel Docs: Mocking - https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/mocking
• Collision - https://github.com/nunomaduro/collision
• PHP Unit - https://phpunit.de/
• Symfony - https://symfony.com/
• Laravel Zero - https://laravel-zero.com/
• Blade X - https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-blade-x/v2/introduction
• The Laravel Podcast, Intro to Composer - https://laravelpodcast.com/episodes/intro-to-composer-with-jordi-boggiano
• John Brown, Laravel Package - https://laravelpackage.com/
• PHP Package Development - https://phppackagedevelopment.com/
• Laravel Package Training - https://laravelpackage.training/
• Laravel New: Package Development, Deprecated Helpers, and Caching Changes - https://podcast.laravel-news.com/78
• Freek Van der Herten, Creating Laravel-Signal-Aware-Command - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9hxQoD47jI
• Skeleton Package - https://github.com/spatie/package-skeleton-laravel
• Laravel Package Tools - https://github.com/spatie/laravel-package-tools
• Larabelles: Building a Laravel Package #1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY1QOG8mwE4
• Larabelles: Building a Laravel Package #2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB5ZmZmrYxM
• Oh Dear App - https://ohdear.app/

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Editing sponsored by Tighten; transcript sponsored by Larajobs.