Caleb Porzio

Caleb Porzio is an independent open source developer from Buffalo, New York, best known for creating Livewire, the full-stack framework for Laravel, and Alpine.js, the lightweight JavaScript framework for sprinkling interactivity into server-rendered HTML.

He left his job at the Laravel consultancy Tighten in January 2019 for what was meant to be a sabbatical. Days later he built the first proof of concept of Livewire, and the sabbatical turned into a full-time career in open source.

Caleb became one of the most visible examples of sustainable open source funding. In 2020 he wrote publicly about crossing six figures a year on GitHub Sponsors, driven largely by sponsor-only screencasts and a 'sponsorware' model he helped popularize, where new packages stay exclusive to sponsors until a funding goal is reached.

He later added commercial products on top of his frameworks, including premium Alpine UI Components and Flux, a paid UI component library for Livewire. He also co-hosts the No Plans To Merge podcast.