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Boost Spatie Guidelines

Spatie's Laravel & PHP coding guidelines for Laravel Boost

#Spatie Guidelines for Laravel Boost

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Bring Spatie's battle-tested Laravel & PHP coding guidelines to your AI-assisted development workflow with Laravel Boost.

#Installation

Install the package via Composer:

composer require spatie/boost-spatie-guidelines --dev

Then install the guidelines with Boost:

php artisan boost:install

Select the Spatie guidelines from the list and they'll be installed to .ai/guidelines/boost-spatie-guidelines/.

#What's Included

This package provides AI-optimized versions of Spatie's Laravel & PHP coding standards, including:

  • PSR compliance (PSR-1, PSR-2, PSR-12)
  • Type declarations and nullable syntax
  • Class structure and property promotion
  • Control flow patterns (happy path, early returns)
  • Laravel conventions (routes, controllers, configuration)
  • Naming conventions (camelCase, kebab-case, snake_case)
  • Blade templates and validation
  • Testing best practices

These guidelines help AI assistants like Claude Code generate code that follows Spatie's proven standards.

#Support us

We invest a lot of resources into creating best in class open source packages. You can support us by buying one of our paid products.

We highly appreciate you sending us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using. You'll find our address on our contact page. We publish all received postcards on our virtual postcard wall.

#Usage

Once installed, AI assistants using Laravel Boost will automatically reference these guidelines when generating code. No additional configuration needed!

#Keeping Guidelines Up to Date

Re-run the Boost installer after updating the package to refresh guidelines:

composer update spatie/boost-spatie-guidelines
php artisan boost:update

#Full Guidelines

View the complete, human-readable guidelines at spatie.be/guidelines.

#Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for recent changes.

#Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

#Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

#Postcardware

You're free to use this package, but if it makes it to your production environment we highly appreciate you sending us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using.

Our address is: Spatie, Kruikstraat 22, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium.

We publish all received postcards on our company website.

#Credits

#License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

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