Laravels

Laravels is a term used in some developer communities to refer to multiple Laravel-based applications or deployments within a given organization or ecosystem. It is not an official product name, but a pluralized reference to instances of the Laravel framework in use. The term can also describe a broad view of projects built with Laravel and the workflows that connect them.

In practice, a set of laravels may share conventions, code standards, and packages that are common to the Laravel ecosystem. Core capabilities such as the Eloquent ORM, Blade templating engine, the service container, queues, events, and the Artisan command-line interface are frequently encountered across laravels, along with standard practices for testing and deployment.

Common patterns for managing laravels include using monorepos that house several applications or maintaining separate repositories for each application while sharing common libraries as packages. Dependency management relies on Composer, and versioning typically follows Laravel releases in use by the projects. Deployment and hosting often leverage tools such as Laravel Forge, Vapor, Envoyer, or custom CI/CD pipelines that accommodate Laravel's deployment requirements, including migrations and configuration management.

Security, maintenance, and compatibility considerations are important when supervising multiple laravels. This includes applying Laravel and package updates across all projects, coordinating database migrations, and ensuring consistent environments and configurations to minimize drift between applications.

See also: Laravel, PHP, Composer, Forge, Vapor, Envoyer, Eloquent, Blade.