Slider Widget Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Page-builder feature scope: Informs whether to ship a reusable "hero/slider" content block in an existing CMS, rather than hand-building one per page or per campaign microsite. Useful only if your content stack is Victoire DCMS; the package is a widget, not a standalone slider library.
• Build vs. buy for a carousel: This is a "buy" candidate of the cheapest possible kind — a pre-wired CMS widget with an admin-editable slide list. It bundles the authoring UX (add slide, order, image, link) rather than just the front-end JS, which is the expensive part to build in a CMS context.
• Roadmap signal on legacy CMS investment: The package's state (last release 2018, 1 star, 0 dependents, low health score) is itself decision input: it tells you the Victoire widget ecosystem is effectively frozen. That should feed a decision about whether to keep extending a Victoire-based marketing site or plan a migration.
• Use cases it actually fits: Marketing/landing pages inside a Symfony + Victoire site that need an editable image carousel without a deploy; agency reuse across multiple client sites on the same Victoire baseline.
• Feature prioritization: Low adoption and zero dependents suggest sliders are not a differentiator in this ecosystem — argues for deprioritizing a custom slider build and reaching for a commodity front-end library instead.

When to Consider This Package

Consider it only when all of the following hold:

• You are already running Victoire DCMS (Symfony), not Laravel. Despite being distributed via Packagist, this is a Symfony bundle wired into Victoire's widget/D CMS rendering pipeline — it will not drop into a Laravel app or a generic Symfony app without Victoire's core.
• You need an editor-managed slider, and the alternative is building and maintaining a widget yourself.
• You accept that you are adopting unmaintained code: last release June 2018, single star, no dependents, no visible security or compatibility cadence. Pin the version, vendor it if necessary, and plan for the Symfony/PHP version ceiling.

Look elsewhere when:

• Your stack is Laravel. There is no Laravel integration here; use a maintained Laravel-friendly option or just ship Swiper.js/Glide.js with your own Blade partial and a simple content model.
• Your stack is modern Symfony without Victoire. Use Symfony UX components or a plain JS slider library — you get better accessibility, maintenance, and no CMS lock-in.
• Accessibility or performance is a stated requirement. A 2018-era slider widget is unlikely to meet current expectations for keyboard navigation, reduced-motion, lazy loading, and Core Web Vitals; budget for a front-end replacement.
• You need vendor support, security patching, or an SLA. There is none.
• You're evaluating "is this package healthy?" as a proxy for adoption. The score is low and there are zero dependents; treat that as a stop sign unless you are already inside the ecosystem.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For executives: This is a small, free, single-purpose add-on that gives content editors a drag-and-drop slider block on sites built with the Victoire CMS. It is a tactical convenience, not a strategic component: the project has been dormant since 2018, has essentially no user base, and carries no vendor backing. Recommended posture is reuse if we already run Victoire and need a slider this quarter, otherwise do not adopt — the maintenance and eventual migration cost outweigh a component we could replicate with an off-the-shelf JavaScript slider in a few days.

For engineering: It is a Symfony bundle for Victoire DCMS, not Laravel — flag any assumption otherwise. Expect an old dependency footprint and a PHP/Symfony version ceiling; verify compatibility against our runtime before promising a timeline. If we proceed, pin the version, treat it as vendored/forked code we own, and do not expect upstream fixes. If we don't already run Victoire, the honest recommendation is to build a thin slider block on a maintained JS library instead, which is roughly equivalent effort and materially lower long-term risk.