Filament Panel Switch Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Multi-panel architecture decisions. This package supports the choice to split a single Laravel app into multiple Filament panels (e.g. admin, app, vendor, customer) rather than shipping separate applications. It gives end users a first-class way to move between panels they have access to, which is often the blocker that forces teams back to a single monolithic panel.
• Build vs. buy for a small but recurring UX need. Panel switching looks trivial and is not: it touches panel discovery, authorization (which panels can this user see?), URL generation, navigation placement, and session/redirect behavior. Buying a maintained ~one-purpose plugin avoids sprinkling that logic across service providers and custom nav components.
• Roadmap sequencing. Because adoption is coupled to the Filament major version, this is a dependency-driven roadmap item, not a standalone feature. Treat it as part of "upgrade to Filament v4" planning rather than an independent initiative.
• Use cases it unlocks: SaaS products with separate tenant and operator surfaces; internal tools with distinct back-office and support panels; marketplaces with vendor/buyer/admin splits; gradual strangler-style splits where a legacy panel is retired panel-by-panel.
• v3.0.0 is a major-version release, which should be read as a compatibility signal. For Filament plugins the dominant cause of a major bump is alignment with a new Filament major (v4). Verify against the changelog before committing; if confirmed, this release is what unblocks the Filament v4 upgrade path for teams already using the package — and it makes the package ineligible for teams still on Filament v3.
• Risk flag for the roadmap: a major version with a changelog-only release note (no narrative upgrade guide) implies migration effort and thin documentation for the breaking changes. Budget a spike, not a line item.

When to Consider This Package

Adopt when:

• You run two or more Filament panels in one Laravel application and users legitimately need to cross between them.
• Your panels have overlapping user populations (an admin who is also a customer, a vendor who also has a support view) — this is where native panel navigation falls short and the plugin earns its place.
• You are on the Filament major that v3.0.0 targets (verify: likely v4) and are comfortable depending on a small, single-maintainer package for a navigation-level concern.
• You want a low-blast-radius first step into multi-panel architecture — the plugin is additive and can be removed without data migration.

Look elsewhere or build in-house when:

• You have only one panel, or panels with fully disjoint user bases where a redirect or separate login is acceptable — you don't need this.
• Panel switching must be deeply branded or context-aware (e.g. switching also swaps tenancy, locale, and theme) — you'll end up wrapping or forking, and owning ~200 lines of code may be cheaper than owning a dependency.
• You need SLA-backed support or a security review trail; a solo-maintained plugin may not clear procurement.
• You are mid-freeze on your Filament version — do not take a major bump of a UI dependency during a release window.
• Unverified: if the changelog confirms v3.0.0 drops support for the Filament version you're on, defer until your framework upgrade lands.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For executives (one paragraph): We're evaluating a small open-source add-on that lets users move between the different areas of our product — for example, between the customer view and the admin console — without logging out or hunting for a URL. It's a narrow, reversible dependency: it adds a navigation affordance, carries no data model or migration, and can be removed cleanly. The new v3.0.0 release is a major version, which for this ecosystem almost always means it now targets the latest Filament release; that's good for our upgrade path but means it is not a drop-in for our current version. Recommendation: approve a short technical spike to confirm compatibility and read the changelog, then adopt alongside — not before — our Filament upgrade.

For engineering: The package solves panel discovery, authorization filtering, and cross-panel routing for multi-panel Filament apps. v3.0.0 is a major bump published with changelog-only release notes — treat it as a breaking release. Action items: (1) confirm the target Filament major and PHP version from the diff; (2) diff public API (config keys, Blade/nav registration, any published views) against the version we'd be upgrading from; (3) check open issues for upgrade regressions before pinning; (4) if we adopt, pin the exact version and record the upgrade note in our dependency log, since a single-maintainer package's majors can move fast.