Originally published at hafiz.dev When someone shares a link to your Laravel app on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Slack, the platform shows a preview image. That image is the Open Graph image. Most Laravel apps either ship without one, ship with the same generic image on every page, or rely on an external service like Cloudinary or a separate Node.js renderer. Spatie released laravel-og-image to solve this in a way that feels native to Laravel: define your OG image as HTML right inside your Blade views, let the package screenshot it, cache it, and serve it automatically. No external API. No separate CSS pipeline. No extra app. This is the practical walkthrough I wish I had when I first looked at it. Real-world setup, the gotchas, and the Cloudflare alternative for Forge users without Chromium. Why this package matters Most Laravel developers I know fall into one of three buckets when it comes to OG images. They have a single static image used across every page.…