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Laravel Basics Package

A zero-setup package to bootstrap your Laravel projects with a collection of sensible defaults, strict mode helpers, developer protections, and performance tooling. Inspired by nunomaduro/essentials.

Requirements

• PHP ^8.1 || ^8.2 || ^8.3 || ^8.4
• Laravel ^10.0 | ^11.0 | ^12.0 | ^13.0

Installation

The package auto-registers via Laravel's service provider discovery.

Configuration

Publish the config file:

This will create config/laravel-basics.php, where each feature can be individually enabled or disabled.

Full Setup: Development Tools, Code Style and Git Hooks

Run the following command to interactively install and configure useful development tools:

This command will offer to install and configure the following:

• Laravel Folio: page based routing for Laravel.
• Laravel Octane: supercharge your Laravel application's performance.
• Laravel Pulse: real-time application performance monitoring dashboard.
• Laravel Reverb: real-time WebSocket communication backend for Laravel.
• Laravel Debugbar: debugbar for Laravel applications.
• Log Viewer: fast and beautiful Log Viewer for Laravel logs.
• Laravel Ray: debug with Ray to fix problems faster.
• Laravel Backup: backup your Laravel applications.
• Symfony Security Checker: scan your app dependencies for known vulnerabilities.
• Predis: a flexible and feature-complete Redis/Valkey client for PHP.
• Laravel Horizon: dashboard and queue configuration for Laravel queues.
• PHP-CS-Fixer: a tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues.
• PHPStan: discover bugs in your code without running it (static analysis).
• EditorConfig: helps maintain consistent coding styles for multiple developers.
• Pest: an elegant PHP testing framework.
• Peck: identifies wording or spelling mistakes in your codebase.
• Laravel IDE Helper: generates IDE helper files for better autocompletion.
• Husky Git Hooks: improves your commits and more.
• gitignore: a standard gitignore file for Laravel projects.

You can safely rerun this command. It will never overwrite files without asking for confirmation.

Available Features

✅ AutomaticallyEagerLoadRelationships

Enables automatic eager loading of relationships listed in $touches (Laravel 10.37+). Prevents N+1 queries caused by deferred loading of touched relations.

✅ DefaultPasswordRules

Enforces stricter password validation globally in production: minimum 12 characters, maximum 50, and cross-checked against known data breach databases. No rules are enforced in non-production environments.

✅ DisableQueryLog

Disables the Eloquent query log in production. The log accumulates all executed queries in memory and is only useful during debugging — leaving it enabled causes silent memory growth in long-running processes.

✅ FakeSleep

Mocks Sleep::for(...) during tests so no real time is spent waiting. Keeps the test suite fast without changing application code.

✅ ForceHttpsScheme

Forces all generated URLs to use HTTPS via URL::forceScheme('https'). Useful when the app runs behind a proxy or CDN that terminates SSL.

✅ HttpClientGlobalTimeout

Sets a global timeout (default: 30 seconds) for all outgoing Http:: client requests. Prevents hanging requests from blocking production workers indefinitely. Set the value in seconds; use false to disable.

✅ ImmutableDates

Replaces mutable Carbon instances with CarbonImmutable across the entire application. Prevents accidental date mutations when passing date objects between methods.

✅ LogSlowQueries

Logs database queries exceeding a configurable threshold (default: 100ms) as warnings. Helps surface performance issues early in development and staging.

✅ PreventAccessingMissingAttributes

Throws an exception when accessing a model attribute that has not been loaded or does not exist. Catches typos and missing select() columns that would otherwise fail silently.

✅ PreventLazyLoading

Throws an exception for any lazy-loaded relationship in non-production environments. Forces eager loading and prevents N+1 query problems from reaching production undetected.

✅ PreventSilentlyDiscardingAttributes

Throws an exception if attributes unknown to the model are passed to fill() or create(). Prevents silent data loss caused by mismatched field names or typos in mass assignments.

✅ PreventStrayHttpRequests

Prevents real HTTP requests from being made during tests unless explicitly faked with Http::fake(). Protects against tests accidentally calling external services.

✅ ProhibitDestructiveCommands

Blocks Artisan commands like migrate:fresh, db:wipe, and migrate:reset in production. Reduces the risk of irreversible data loss from accidental command execution.

✅ SchemaDefaultStringLength

Sets the default string column length for migrations (default: 191). Required for utf8mb4 charset support on older MySQL and MariaDB versions.

✅ SetDefaultTimezone

Sets the PHP runtime timezone from the app.timezone config value. Complements SetLocale to ensure both locale and timezone are consistently applied from the application configuration.

✅ SetLocale

Sets the PHP and Carbon locale using the current app.locale config value. Ensures date formatting and string operations use the correct language settings.

✅ ShouldBeStrict

Enables Eloquent strict mode globally in non-production environments. Combines PreventLazyLoading, PreventSilentlyDiscardingAttributes, and PreventAccessingMissingAttributes into a single model-level setting.

✅ TrustProxies

Configures trusted proxies for applications running behind load balancers or CDNs. Required for ForceHttpsScheme and correct client IP detection to work reliably when the app sits behind a reverse proxy. Trusts 127.0.0.1 and ::1 by default.

✅ UnguardModels

Disables Laravel mass-assignment protection globally. Use only in safe, controlled environments such as internal tools, seeders, or closed systems.

✅ ViteAggressivePrefetching

Enables aggressive chunk prefetching in Vite to reduce navigation latency in SPAs.

License

Laravel Basics is open-source software licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE.md file for full details.

Made with ❤️ by Daniele Montecchi