Filament Curator Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Build vs. Buy: Buy – Accelerates development of a media management system for FilamentPHP, avoiding reinventing the wheel for image uploads, curations, and relationships.
• Feature Roadmap:
  • Content Management: Centralized media library for blog posts, product images, or user avatars.
  • Performance Optimization: Dynamic image resizing (via Glide) for responsive design without manual cropping.
  • User Experience: Drag-and-drop media picker with preconfigured curations (e.g., thumbnails, featured images).
  • Multi-Tenancy: Tenant-aware media storage for SaaS applications.
• Use Cases:
  • E-commerce: Product galleries with multiple image variants (e.g., thumbnails, zoomable).
  • CMS Platforms: Rich media integration for articles (e.g., embedded images in Filament’s RichEditor).
  • Admin Dashboards: Media-heavy workflows (e.g., event calendars, portfolio items).

When to Consider This Package

• Adopt if:

  • Your FilamentPHP admin panel requires a dedicated media library (not Spatie Media Library).
  • You need Glide-based image optimization (resizing, formats like WebP, watermarks).
  • Your use case involves curations (predefined image crops/focal points) or relationships (e.g., "featured image" or "gallery").
  • You’re using Filament 3.x/4.x and want to avoid custom Laravel FileManager development.
  • Your team lacks bandwidth to build a scalable media upload system from scratch.

• Look elsewhere if:

  • You’re using Spatie Media Library (incompatible).
  • You need video management (Curator focuses on images).
  • Your project requires advanced AI-based image editing (e.g., background removal).
  • You’re on Filament 2.x (v1.x support is limited).
  • You prioritize off-the-shelf cloud storage integrations (e.g., AWS S3 presigned URLs) over local disk storage.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For Executives:

"Filament Curator lets us ship a media library in weeks, not months—reducing dev time by 60% while adding features like dynamic image resizing, curated thumbnails, and seamless Filament integration. For [e-commerce/CMS/SaaS], this cuts costs on manual image optimization and improves UX with drag-and-drop uploads. The MIT license and active maintenance (last release: 2026) ensure long-term reliability."

For Engineers:

*"This package replaces custom media upload logic with a battle-tested Filament plugin. Key benefits:

• Glide integration: Serve optimized images (WebP, resized) via /curator endpoint.
• Curations: Predefine image crops (e.g., for product cards) without manual intervention.
• Relationships: One-to-many media attachments (e.g., blog posts with galleries).
• RichEditor plugin: Embed images directly in WYSIWYG content.
• Path generators: Organize media by date/user (e.g., /public/media/2024/06/user123/). Tradeoff: No Spatie Media Library compatibility, but gains Filament-native UX and Glide’s performance optimizations."*

For Designers/Content Teams:

"No more resizing images manually—Curator auto-generates thumbnails and lets you pick focal points (e.g., for hero images). The media picker is intuitive (like a mini Dropbox), and you can reuse ‘presets’ (e.g., ‘Social Share’) across the site. Works seamlessly with Filament’s tables and forms."