How Cursor Editor Helped Me Revive a Laravel Package After 7 Years

After 7 years of inactivity, I finally decided to revisit and update my old Laravel package, laravel-social-auto-posting. Built to help developers easily publish content to platforms like Telegram, Twitter, and Facebook, this package had gathered nearly 400 stars, but was in desperate need of modernization. Updating legacy code is never easy. Between outdated dependencies and shifting best practices, I was hesitant to dive back in. That’s when I decided to try Cursor, an AI-powered code editor built for developers. How Cursor Helped:

Mar 22, 2025 - 12:20
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How Cursor Editor Helped Me Revive a Laravel Package After 7 Years

After 7 years of inactivity, I finally decided to revisit and update my old Laravel package, laravel-social-auto-posting. Built to help developers easily publish content to platforms like Telegram, Twitter, and Facebook, this package had gathered nearly 400 stars, but was in desperate need of modernization.

Updating legacy code is never easy. Between outdated dependencies and shifting best practices, I was hesitant to dive back in. That’s when I decided to try Cursor, an AI-powered code editor built for developers.

How Cursor Helped: