A coding style is there for a reason, and Laravel even has a documentation that tells you in advance the coding style and gives you tips on how to submit a good

A coding style is there for a reason, and Laravel even has a documentation that tells you in advance the coding style and gives you tips on how to submit a good pull request: https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/master/CONTRIBUTIN... This is how contributions work. Not just open source. At any sane company, you will have a common coding style, and your patches will not pass review, or be merged, if you do not follow. Same goes for open source.