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title: "Meet Maestro: How We Manage 21 Laravel Starter Kit Variants"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/meet-maestro-how-we-manage-21-laravel-starter-kit-variants-f2smpe0l5
source_url: https://laravel.com/blog/meet-maestro-how-we-manage-21-laravel-starter-kit-variants-without-losing-our-minds
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source: "Laravel"
published: 2026-04-07T18:01:37.997Z
updated: 2026-04-07T18:04:30.774Z
tags: ["general-programming", "php", "laravel"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 31
comments: 1
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# Meet Maestro: How We Manage 21 Laravel Starter Kit Variants

**[Laravel](https://daily.dev/sources/laravel)** · 12 min read · 31 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Maestro is an internal orchestration tool built by the Laravel team to manage 21 starter kit variants across 8 repositories. Instead of manually propagating changes across every repo, Maestro uses a layered build system where shared, framework-specific, auth-specific, and feature-specific layers are composed into final runnable kits. Contributors work on a built variant in a single directory, and a watcher syncs changes back to the correct source layer using priority-based ownership logic. Placeholder restoration ensures framework-specific values don't leak into shared source files. The tool also provides CLI commands for linting, validation, and browser testing across the full matrix or a targeted subset, significantly reducing the cognitive overhead for contributors.

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**@superroach** · 0 upvotes

> There's enough software products named Maestro.

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