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GrahamCampbell/Laravel-Exceptions
Provides a powerful error response system for Laravel
Laravel Exceptions replaces Laravel's default exception handler with a pipeline of transformers, displayers, and filters that decide how to render errors — different output for JSON API clients vs. browsers, different verbosity in debug vs. production. It's a clean abstraction for apps that need to return proper error formats across multiple content types rather than just HTML pages or a single JSON format.
The transformer/displayer/filter pipeline is genuinely well-designed — each concern is separated and each piece is swappable. Content-type negotiation is built in, so an API client asking for `application/vnd.api+json` gets JSON:API-formatted errors without any manual branching. The exception-to-log-level mapping config is a nice quality-of-life feature that saves everyone from writing custom `shouldReport` logic. Test coverage is solid with stub fixtures for specific HTTP status responses.
587 stars after what looks like years of active maintenance is a signal that almost nobody reaches for this over Laravel's built-in handler, which has improved substantially since L8. The README has a 'no usage documentation' admission that's honest but also a red flag for a package whose whole value is correct configuration of non-obvious pipeline ordering. Laravel 12 support is absent in the compatibility matrix, so you'd be adopting something that's already behind the current framework. The Whoops integration is a dev convenience that Laravel itself handles with Ignition, making half the value proposition redundant for most teams.