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improveme

A drop-in feedback & bug-report widget for Laravel. It adds a floating 🐞 icon to your site; clicking it lets a user write a bug report or a suggestion, visually pick the related block on the page (with a drill-down picker that lets you "see through" to the element behind), and ships the report — its text, a CSS selector, the element's HTML and a screenshot of the area — to Telegram and/or a log file.

  • Zero front-end build step — the widget is plain JS served by a route.
  • Works out of the box: with no Telegram config it just logs to a file.
  • Auto-injects into your pages, or place it manually with @improveme.
  • Fully publishable config; rename the env vars; override the route/controller.

Requirements

  • PHP 8.2+
  • Laravel 10, 11, 12 or 13

Install

composer require arhx/improveme

That's it. The service provider is auto-discovered and, by default, the widget auto-injects before </body> on every HTML page. Open any page and you'll see the floating icon in the bottom-right corner.

Reports are written to storage/logs/improveme.log immediately, even before you configure Telegram.

Configure Telegram (optional)

Add to your .env:

IMPROVEME_TELEGRAM_TOKEN=123456:ABC-your-bot-token
IMPROVEME_TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=-1001234567890

Now every report is sent to that chat (screenshot as a photo with the report as caption). Leave them unset and only the log channel runs.

To send into a forum topic: IMPROVEME_TELEGRAM_THREAD_ID=42.

Manual placement

Prefer to control exactly where the snippet renders? Turn off auto-injection and drop the directive in your layout:

IMPROVEME_INJECT=false
<body>
  ...
  @improveme
</body>

Common env switches

Env Default Meaning
IMPROVEME_ENABLED true Master on/off switch.
IMPROVEME_INJECT true Auto-inject before </body>.
IMPROVEME_AUDIENCE all all | auth | guest.
IMPROVEME_POSITION bottom-right Icon corner.
IMPROVEME_ACCENT #ff5a36 Icon / primary button colour.
IMPROVEME_HOVER_COLOR #3b82f6 Element hover outline.
IMPROVEME_SELECTED_COLOR #22c55e Picked element outline.
IMPROVEME_SCREENSHOT_PADDING 15 Px captured around the selection.
IMPROVEME_TELEGRAM_TOKEN Bot token (enables Telegram).
IMPROVEME_TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID Target chat id.

Publish & customise

Publish the config to tweak anything (and to rename the env vars — just edit the env('…') calls in the published file):

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=improveme-config

Publish the Blade snippet (e.g. to restyle the bootstrap):

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=improveme-views

Self-host the JS asset instead of serving it from a route:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=improveme-assets

Override the route or controller

Point the package at your own controller (extend the bundled one for the easiest path):

// config/improveme.php
'controller' => \App\Http\Controllers\MyReportController::class,
use Arhx\Improveme\Http\Controllers\ReportController;

class MyReportController extends ReportController
{
    protected function rules(array $config): array
    {
        return array_merge(parent::rules($config), [
            'message' => ['required', 'string', 'min:10', 'max:5000'],
        ]);
    }
}

Or take over routing entirely:

// config/improveme.php
'register_routes' => false,
// routes/web.php
Route::post('feedback', \App\Http\Controllers\MyReportController::class);

How the picker works

  1. Click 🎯 Pick an element — the page enters picking mode.
  2. Hovering outlines the block under the cursor (hover colour).
  3. Click to select it (selected colour). The selection stays highlighted.
  4. Hovering the selected block now sees through it — the outline previews the block behind it; clicking again drills to that containing block.
  5. Press Esc (or Done) to finish. A screenshot of the selection (padded by 15px) is captured client-side via html2canvas-pro — a maintained html2canvas fork that understands Tailwind 4's oklch() colours (lazy-loaded from a CDN; URL configurable via IMPROVEME_HTML2CANVAS_URL).

The report payload includes a unique CSS selector, the element's outerHTML (truncated), its bounding rect, the page URL/title, viewport, user agent, the authenticated user (if any) and the screenshot.

What gets sent

{
  "type": "bug",                  // or "idea"
  "message": "",
  "page":   { "url": "", "title": "", "referrer": "" },
  "viewport": { "w": 1440, "h": 900, "dpr": 2 },
  "element": { "selector": "", "tag": "div", "html": "", "rect": {} },
  "screenshot": "data:image/png;base64,…"
}

License

MIT © arhx

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Drop-in Laravel feedback & bug-report widget: floating bug icon, drill-down element picker, screenshot, Telegram + log reporting.

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