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The send side of Matte — self-hosted, unmetered image background removal on Laravel Cloud. Install it in any Laravel app to call your self-hosted Matte server with one line: Matte::remove($image).

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What it does

matte-client is a thin convenience SDK over the Matte HTTP API. It is a fast-path, not a requirement — the server is a plain HTTP API, so anything can POST to it directly. The SDK just makes the common Laravel case ergonomic.

• Matte::remove($image, $options, $callbackUrl?) → a JobHandle (async submit). The $image can be a file path, raw bytes, an UploadedFile, or an SplFileInfo.
• Matte::removeSync($image, $options) → the transparent PNG bytes, inline, for small / interactive cases.
• JobHandle → status(), wait($timeout) (polls to done/failed/timeout), result() (fetches the PNG).

It speaks the matte-contracts wire protocol and authenticates with a Bearer token.

Async, two ways — simple by default

The default keeps the install zero-infrastructure: no public endpoint, no websockets.

• Poll → event (default). Submit, then AwaitRemovalJob::dispatch($handle->id()). The job polls the server on your app's own queue, optionally stores the result to MATTE_STORE_DISK, and fires a MatteRemovalCompleted event you listen for. Works everywhere — localhost, CI, behind a firewall.
• Signed webhook (opt-in). Set MATTE_WEBHOOK_PATH and pass a callback_url; the package registers a receiver that verifies the server's X-Matte-Signature (constant-time HMAC) and fires the same MatteRemovalCompleted event. Lower latency at scale, but needs a public URL.

use ArtisanBuild\MatteClient\Facades\Matte;
use ArtisanBuild\MatteClient\Jobs\AwaitRemovalJob;

$handle = Matte::remove($request->file('photo'), ['mode' => 'grabcut', 'preset' => 'quality']);
AwaitRemovalJob::dispatch($handle->id());        // → MatteRemovalCompleted

// or, inline:
$png = Matte::removeSync($smallImage);

Activation — by presence of config

The client is active when MATTE_URL and MATTE_TOKEN are set. The webhook receiver is registered only when MATTE_WEBHOOK_PATH is configured.

Installation

composer require artisan-build/matte-client
php artisan matte:install

matte:install prompts for the Matte server URL and the API token (and an optional webhook secret), writes MATTE_URL / MATTE_TOKEN / MATTE_WEBHOOK_SECRET to your .env, publishes the config, and pins matte-contracts to a caret constraint. Generate the token on the server with php artisan matte:issue-token <client-id>.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.