https://dev.to/ashallendesign #introduction Introduction One of the amazing things about Laravel and PHP is the vast ecosystem of community packages available to accelerate your development process. Often, a good package helps you implement complex features in your web application more quickly than writing the code yourself from scratch.
It makes much more sense to use Digital Ocean's PHP package, with tested support for complex features like authentication and making the correct HTTP requests.
When you're looking at a package, it's important to check whether it's still maintained.