James Brooks

James Brooks, a Laravel engineer of 5 years, provides insights into how the Laravel team operates internally. He reveals that the Laravel team consists of only 8 full-stack engineers, 2 support engineers, and 1 educator, yet manages multiple successful products. The talk covers their tools and workflows, including their use of GitHub, Basecamp, Slack, and Help Scout. James also demonstrates a technical example of how they improved Forge's provisioning system.

James Brooks presents a talk on documenting Laravel APIs using Scribe, demonstrating how to automatically generate comprehensive API documentation directly from code annotations and comments. He shows how to group endpoints, add request/response examples, handle authentication documentation, and discusses hosting options including using bump.sh for enhanced documentation features.