--- title: "Detect Packages & Approaches in use within a project with Laravel Roster" url: https://daily.dev/posts/detect-packages-approaches-in-use-within-a-project-with-laravel-roster-vklhc2hjh source_url: https://laravel-news.com/laravel-roster type: article source: "Laravel News" published: 2025-10-13T12:50:08.109Z updated: 2025-10-13T12:50:33.374Z tags: ["php", "laravel"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 24 comments: 4 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Detect Packages & Approaches in use within a project with Laravel Roster **[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 2 min read · 24 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Laravel Roster is a package from the Laravel core team that scans projects to detect which Laravel ecosystem packages are installed and their versions. It provides a simple API to query package information, filter by production or development dependencies, and check for specific packages and versions. The tool is primarily used internally by the Laravel team and comes bundled with Laravel Boost. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@juanplaza** · 2 upvotes > I'm confused. How is this easier than simply looking at composer.json? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Build Production-ready APIs in Laravel with Tyro](https://daily.dev/posts/build-production-ready-apis-in-laravel-with-tyro-wq4dqk55o) · Laravel News · 36 upvotes · 1 comments - [Ward: A Security Scanner for Laravel](https://daily.dev/posts/ward-a-security-scanner-for-laravel-ssd7ztpcc) · Laravel News · 74 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/detect-packages-approaches-in-use-within-a-project-with-laravel-roster-vklhc2hjh)