Statamic Blade Components Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Build vs. buy (or build vs. fork): This is a small, MIT-licensed integration layer that lets Blade components render inside Statamic's Antler templates. The real decision is whether to adopt it as-is, vendor/fork it, or write the equivalent glue ourselves — the package is thin enough that "fork it" is a credible middle path.
• Design-system consolidation: If we run a Laravel app and a Statamic-powered marketing/content site, this package lets both consume the same Blade component library instead of maintaining parallel Antler partials. That directly supports a roadmap item like "one component library, two surfaces."
• Feature delivery on the CMS surface: Enables teams to ship interactive or complex UI blocks (cards, CTAs, embeds, pricing tables) as reusable Blade components while content editors keep working in Antler — useful for scoping content-modeling and templating work in a Statamic migration or redesign.
• Platform/stack standardization: Signals a preference for keeping templating in Blade rather than splitting the team's mental model across two templating engines. Relevant to hiring, onboarding, and code-review standards.
• Technical-debt triage: Because the package is small, unmaintained (last release May 2022), and has zero dependents, it is best treated as a spike or internal utility, not a strategic dependency. That framing feeds directly into a build-vs-adopt recommendation and a maintenance-ownership decision.

When to Consider This Package

Consider it when all of the following hold:

• We already have (or plan to build) a Blade component library we want to reuse inside Statamic templates.
• The Statamic version in use is compatible with the package's 2022-era release, or we are willing to verify and patch compatibility ourselves.
• The integration surface is narrow — a handful of components, not the entire template layer.
• We have engineering capacity to own the code if upstream goes quiet (it effectively already has).

Look elsewhere or do not adopt when:

• We need a maintained dependency with a security/response SLA — 10 stars, zero dependents, and a single stale release is a vendor-risk red flag.
• Native Statamic capabilities (partials, sets, or rendering Blade views directly) already cover the use case without a bridge.
• The team is Standardizing on Antler-only or Blade-only and doesn't need to mix engines.
• Statamic has moved to a version whose Antler internals diverge from what this package targets; porting cost may exceed writing our own adapter.
• The requirement is broad or long-lived (e.g., a full design system across every CMS template) — that warrants a first-party solution, not a low-traffic third-party package.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For executives: This is a tiny, free (MIT) bridge that lets our Laravel app and our Statamic content site share one set of UI building blocks. The upside is less duplicated front-end work and faster content-site feature delivery. The caveat is maintenance risk: the project is small and hasn't shipped since 2022, so I'd recommend we prototype with it and budget a small amount of engineering to own or fork the code rather than depend on upstream.

For engineering: It's a narrow adapter that exposes Blade components to Antler. Low integration cost, low blast radius, easy to vendor. Before committing, validate compatibility with our Statamic version, confirm the component surface we need actually renders correctly (slots, data passing, escaping), and assume we own the code going forward. If the spike is clean, adopt-and-fork; if not, the fallback is a small in-house adapter or native Statamic partials.