Lucid – software architecture for scalable Laravel projects

One thing the Laravel ecosystem is succeeding at is marketing themselves as an easy, enjoyable even beautiful experience for developers.

Some things certainly makes it frictionless to a certain degree, like focus on documentation and a "convention over configuration" approach. But it is also (perhaps mostly) a self-fulfilling thing; if you expect it to be simple and enjoyable, and if you expect the creators to have gone the extra mile to make it so, then it may tend so seem so too (like it did for me when I dabbled in it). But that's beside the point, really.

While this project (Lucid and Lucidarch) looks like something that brings the Laravel philosophy to larger projects, it does not seem to have gained much traction - not many stars or watchers on Github, no recent developments. Perhaps because the need to be handheld is no longer a priority at that stage: the architecture decisions are not a single-developer concern, those things are fleshed out by teams with experience.

I suspect I might be the target audience, but I can't tell what this project is from the front page. With a little digging it looks like a considerable investment of time to find that out.

I think an example, with code, of a problem encountered with plain Laravel that this architecture - that's "not another architecture" - solves would be more helpful than the broader messaging that's there now, especially since it is addressing a fairly technical audience.

Perhaps it is difficult to explain, but that's all the more reason to provide concrete examples up front.