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Lakshan Madushanka
Lakshan Madushanka

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Introduction to TrueReviewer: A Product Review Package for Laravel 🚀

If you’ve ever built a Laravel app with reviews, you already know the pain:

  • Setting up models, migrations, and relationships
  • Designing star ratings and UI widgets that don’t look out of place
  • Preventing spam or fake reviews
  • Ending up with a basic system that feels incomplete

I’ve been there and that’s why I built TrueReviewer.


Why Another Review System? 🤔

When I launched my earlier package Commenter, I noticed something missing in the Laravel ecosystem:

👉 A ready-to-use, flexible, and modern review system that integrates with any Laravel app.

So I spent months designing and building TrueReviewer with one goal:
Make reviews simple, beautiful, and trustworthy.


Key Features : ✨

API Agnostic 🔌

Works with both traditional Laravel apps and API-driven SPAs.
Front-end is decoupled, with Vue components compiled to JS.

Pre-Built Components 🎨

Comes with five beautiful Vue components that are:

  • Accessible
  • User-friendly
  • Modular (use them independently)

Performance + Customization âš¡

Lightweight, fast, and fully customizable to match your project’s style.

AI-Powered Extras 🤖

  • Sentiment detection → automatically detects positive/negative tone.
  • Integrity checks → catch spam or low-quality reviews.

This goes beyond just stars and text. It helps you build trust.


Why Sponsorware? 💡

Laravel developers love open-source (me too!).
But building TrueReviewer took significant time and resources.

So instead of going fully free, I’m releasing it as sponsorware:

  • Support the project with a sponsorship
  • Get full access to the package
  • Help me keep improving it

It’s my way of making it sustainable while still giving back to the community.


Learn More 🔗

👉 TrueReviewer Website

If you’re building:

  • 🛒 An e-commerce site
  • 📦 A SaaS product
  • 👥 A community platform

…then reviews matter. And TrueReviewer saves you months of development with a polished, plug-and-play solution.


💬 I’d love to hear from you:
What challenges have you faced building review systems in Laravel?

Drop your thoughts below 👇

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