Introducing Two Laravel Packages for Help Scout Integration: Sidebar and Beacon Tools for Developers

·Aug 28, 2026 08:07 AM·

Hey friends, bit niche but I made a thing! If you're using both Help Scout and Laravel, I made two packages: Help Scout Sidebar: show your customer/user data in the HS sidebar, so your support agents always have the most relevant data at their fingertips. I wrote this for myself, mostly 😄 Help Scout Beacon: quick and easy way to integrate Beacon into your Laravel application. I'm trying to get a dev portfolio started and wanted to make something that combines both my CS experience and my dev nerdiness. Let me know if you end up using it!

👀2

🙌2

18 comments

· Sorted by Oldest

birdcar
·
·
As a new Laravel/PHP fanboy: excellent choice of stack 🙌🏽
Ines
·
·
Thank you thank you!
Ines
·
·
Laravel is my favorite framework to work with, I love it
birdcar
·
·
I converted about a year and a half ago after (rightfully at the time, imo) talking shit about PHP for like a decade. Laravel is the perfect framework. It's mind blowing how good it is. My personal consultancy basically only uses it unless there's a compelling reason not to.
birdcar
·
·
And now that Laravel Cloud has scale to 0 on everything with ~0 config I've been running my own side projects/client apps for ~pennies
Ines
·
·
SAME. I come from a die-hard WordPress background so PHP has always been my foundation, but I was swayed by React a couple of years ago. The Laravel + React combo is like a double whammy
birdcar
·
·
I'm even all in on Livewire! PHP 8 brought me around to PHP as a pretty ideal language for web dev
birdcar
·
·
I hate react deeply 😂 but that's my own stuff. Inertia is great and Svelte/Vue work insanely well so I'm happy
Ines
·
·
I mean, everything makes you curse "WHY ARE YOU NOT WORKING" at your screen at least once or twice
birdcar
·
·
at least once or twice
per hour, right? 😅
1
Ines
·
·
A missed semicolon, the great equalizer
😂1
birdcar
·
·
But yeah, if you haven't played with Livewire recently I'd also recommend that. The TALL stack really shines in this LLM-assisted world lol
Ines
·
·
I'll have a poke at it, for sure!
Ines
·
·
I'm mostly tinkering with portfolio projects at the minute
birdcar
·
·
I hate/am very bad at frontend as well, so I also went and bought Caleb P's Flux with a lifetime subscription. Which makes spinning up client projects trivial.