Laravel Is Growing Up — So I Built a Workflow Engine That Matches It (Clean Architecture + IAM + Token Approval)

This week’s DEV Community digest highlighted something interesting: Laravel developers are moving beyond “fat controllers” toward clean architecture and enterprise-grade systems. That’s exactly what I’ve been working on. ⚠️ The Problem (We All Faced) If you've built any of these: Leave approval Expense approval Purchase workflows You already know the reality: Business logic inside controllers Role checks everywhere Email spam for approvals Hard to scale, harder to maintain And every project? You