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 # laranail/assets
 
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 [![Tests](https://github.com/laranail/assets/actions/workflows/tests.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/laranail/assets/actions/workflows/tests.yml)
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 [![License MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
 
+`laranail/assets` is not published to Packagist, so there is no registry-version badge to show — see [Install](#install).
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 > An opinionated HTML asset manager for Laravel.
 
 Requires PHP `^8.4.1 || ^8.5` and Laravel `^13.0`.