vs spatie/laravel-activitylog

[medilies]

There is a huge difference when it comes to the sizes and complexity of the packages. And here is what I noticed.

Similarities

Registering event listeners

Both hook event listeners through traits with closures.

Recording the actor

Both log which user made the change but in very different ways.

Accessing the logs with subjects

Both offer a model that gives access to all activities with their subjects.

Log has descriptions

The activity description/action_name is one word (created, updated, deleted ...).

But you can edit it on Spatie's package.

Differences

SoftDeletes trait events

eloquent-logs is explicit with SoftDeletes trait events, so more accuracy (soft deleted, force deleted, and restored).

Archiving

activitylog archives the model states by saving the changed attributes.
I don't want to cover that feature to keep the package lightweight.

Configuration

• activitylog is configurable allowing you to set:
  • What activity to log.
  • What attributes to watch.

Which I plan on adding.