Welcome to Laravel Streams
Laravel Streams is a set of open-source Laravel packages which provide powerful but straightforward services and interfaces that provide fundamental application standards like data modeling, API interaction, UI, control panels, and more. Streams use code-configured JSON files to configure your application and data structures.
The ever-changing and widening landscape of web applications, websites, and the like, has stressed the traditions and ideology of popular CMS options. And, after digging into our own CMS engine, we discovered that the problem is in the CMS paradigm. This project results from the complete deconstruction of that paradigm and establishes a new one built upon new fundamental values and principles.
Laravel Streams and its components are well suited to build various applications:
Laravel Streams focuses first on basic JSON descriptions of your data. We call them streams, hence our namesake.
// streams/music.json
{
"name": "Music",
"fields": [
{
"handle": "id",
"type": "slug"
},
{
"handle": "title",
"type": "string"
},
{
"handle": "mp3",
"type": "file"
},
{
"handle": "artist",
"type": "relationship",
"config": {
"related": "artists"
}
}
]
}
By default, Laravel Streams leverages a flat-file database engine. All databases supported by Laravel are inherently supported. An adapter interface allows you to tap into any data source you need.
By building upon data structure, we can use stream configurations to help drastically reduce the time required to do things like:
Our overarching focus is to abstract, normalize, and optimize development systems and the work required from many Laravel projects. We try to restrict this to our core focus of data abstraction and access.
Laravel Streams focuses on these fundamental areas of application development.
Time to get your feet wet!
Know what you are looking for already? Dive right into our core packages.