Dries Vints

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Belgium

Dries is a developer for Laravel, the popular PHP framework. In his free time he's also an avid Open-Source contributor and maintainer. He's the maintainer of Laravel.io, the Laravel community portal and the creator of Blade UI Kit, a set of open-source libraries built for Laravel Blade. He also co-organises the Full Stack Belgium user groups and the Full Stack Europe conference.

Community Contributions

All Speaking Event organization Open Source

Open source project / 09-02-2020

Blade UI Kit

I've built Blade UI Kit, a set of open-source libraries built for Laravel Blade. It features the main library itself which are a set of renderless components. As well as Blade Icons, a library to help you handle SVG icons in your Laravel Blade views.

Open source project / 08-28-2020

Laravel.io

I maintain Laravel.io, the Laravel community portal. On this site, users can get help from the community using the forum or share articles with each other. We have a vibrant community of over 45k members.

Open source project / 08-25-2020

Cashier Paddle

As part of my work with Laravel, I've built Cashier Paddle which provides an expressive, fluent interface to Paddle's subscription billing services.

Event organization / 02-26-2020

Full Stack Belgium

I organise the monthly Full Stack Belgium meetups in Ghent and Antwerp. Every month we have one event in Ghent and one in Antwerp. The events host speakers and a wide variety of subjects around programming.

Event organization / 10-24-2019

Full Stack Europe

I co-organised Full Stack Europe, a conference for any kind of developer. We've designed this conference for entire software teams, not just specific parts of the stack.

Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 08-30-2019

Event Sourcing in Laravel with EventSauce

I spoke about how to practically get started with Event Sourcing in Laravel with EventSauce.

Open source project / 10-01-2018

Laravel

I work and contribute for Laravel, the popular PHP framework. I maintain all of its open source projects, making sure issues are handled, bugs are fixed, new features are developed and help people out on support channels such as Discord.