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Building multiple flavors of an application with Laravel

Okay, so I’m building a Web application using PHP and Laravel and the ultimate goal is to have a free, standard version as well as a commercial version which the user will pay to have. Of course, the commercial version will have additional features which will be locked in the community edition.

The problem here is that I have no idea how to go about this and surprisingly, I can’t seem to find anything on how to intelligently develop this type of application. Having two codebase, one for each version, seems like a very bad idea. Equally, having my code riddled with “if” statements to lock features up depending on specific clients seems pretty bad too.

How does one go about developing an application with multiple flavors like this? Are there tools? Tutorials which I could read?

Thanks in advance.

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