Recipes Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Deployment automation scope: Decides whether release automation for Laravel/PHP apps — symlink releases, migrations, cache clearing, queue restarts, rollback, multi-environment deploys — is a roadmap priority or table stakes already covered by platform tooling.
• Build vs. buy vs. borrow: The recipes are MIT-licensed and can be vendored or forked, but the project is archived with no 2019+ releases. Adoption therefore means “borrow the patterns” or “buy into owning the code,” not “buy a maintained dependency.”
• Legacy platform support: Useful as a reference for older Laravel/PHP apps still running Deployer-based workflows, especially where custom bash scripts exist and need standardization.
• Modernization sequencing: Helps compare deployment recipes against Deployer core functionality, Laravel Forge/Envoyer, Ploi, Laravel Cloud, GitHub Actions, or internal CI/CD — informing whether to migrate, replace, or retire custom deployment code.
• Risk and maintenance budgeting: Since the package is archived and has no dependents, it should not become a strategic dependency. Any use requires an owner, pinned version, security review, and a plan for PHP/Laravel compatibility.
• Use-case fit: Best suited to standard Laravel deploy tasks and self-managed infrastructure; poor fit for new products, regulated environments, or teams without capacity to maintain a fork.

When to Consider This Package

• Consider it when you already use Deployer on a legacy Laravel/PHP stack and need proven recipe patterns for cache clearing, migrations, queue restarts, release symlinks, or rollback.
• Consider it as a reference implementation or time-boxed fork when migrating from ad hoc shell scripts to a repeatable deployment process.
• Consider it only if the team can pin the dependency, audit the recipes, vendor/fork them, and accept full maintenance ownership.
• Look elsewhere for new Laravel projects, PHP 8+/Laravel 10+ support, active security patching, or vendor-backed deployment workflows.
• Look elsewhere when the deployment target is a managed platform such as Laravel Forge, Envoyer, Ploi, Laravel Cloud, or a CI/CD-native workflow where maintained first-party tooling is preferable.
• Avoid it as a critical-path dependency for production systems without an internal maintainer; archived status, last release in 2019, and zero dependents are strong signals of ecosystem risk.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

Executive summary: deployer/recipes is a low-cost MIT-licensed collection of deployment recipes for PHP/Laravel teams using Deployer. It can accelerate standardization of common release tasks, but it is archived, has not shipped since 2019, and should not be treated as a strategic dependency. The practical recommendation is to use it as a reference or short-term fork — not as a maintained platform component — unless engineering explicitly owns and audits it. For new products, prefer supported deployment tooling or Deployer’s maintained core recipes. For legacy apps, it may reduce custom scripting risk, but only with a clear owner, pinned version, and migration path.