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InterNACHI / modular

Modularize your Laravel application
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Advantages over nWidart Laravel Modules #1

Closed AliN11 closed 4 years ago

AliN11 commented 4 years ago

Hi. You are probably familiar with nWidart Laravel Modules and I'm interested in knowing the advantages over that. It would be nice to have a comparison. Thanks.

inxilpro commented 4 years ago

Laravel Modules is a great package but it has a different focus. As far as I understand, it was built for AsgardCMS as a way to add support for enabling/disabling plugins and supports installing modules from packagist. If you were building something like a CMS that needs plugin support, the nWidart package is a much better fit.

On the other hand, this package is built to have minimal impact. It relies on existing Laravel conventions and features rather than adding new ones, which makes it a great low-impact way to introduce modules. If you ever choose to stop using InterNACHI/modular, you can do so with minimal effort.

Both are good packages. Our main reason for not choosing the nWidart project is that it requires that you use somewhat non-standard naming and organization, and has more overhead. The beauty of our solution is that there's just not much to it — which makes it easier to maintain and keep in sync with future Laravel releases.

inxilpro commented 4 years ago

I also added a section to the README about the pros and cons of each.