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Laravel Opinionated Essentials

Opinionated essentials for Laravel applications. Applies sensible framework defaults automatically and provides generators for common patterns.

Installation

The service provider is auto-discovered — no manual registration required.

Configuration

Publish the config file to adjust or disable individual defaults:

This creates config/opinionated-essentials.php in your application. Every default can be toggled via environment variables.

Opinionated Defaults

The following behaviors are applied automatically when the package is installed:

Behavior Config key Env variable Default
Eloquent lazy-loading prevention (non-production) models.prevent_lazy_loading OPINIONATED_ESSENTIALS_PREVENT_LAZY_LOADING true
Carbon immutable dates dates.immutable OPINIONATED_ESSENTIALS_IMMUTABLE_DATES true
Secure password rules in production passwords.secure OPINIONATED_ESSENTIALS_SECURE_PASSWORDS true
Prohibit destructive DB commands in production database.prevent-destruction OPINIONATED_ESSENTIALS_PREVENT_DB_DESTRUCTION true

To disable a default, set the env variable to false or update config/opinionated-essentials.php.

Lazy Loading Prevention

Outside of production, accessing an unloaded Eloquent relationship throws a LazyLoadingViolationException, forcing eager loading and preventing N+1 queries:

Immutable Dates

All date instances returned by Eloquent are CarbonImmutable, preventing accidental mutation:

Secure Passwords (production only)

In production, Password::defaults() requires a minimum of 12 characters, mixed case, letters, numbers, symbols, and checks the password against the HaveIBeenPwned database:

In non-production environments Password::default() returns null (no extra constraints), making registration easy during development.

Prohibit Destructive Commands (production only)

DB::prohibitDestructiveCommands(true) is called in production, preventing migrate:fresh, migrate:reset, and db:wipe from running accidentally.

Generators

make:action

Creates a new Action class in app/Actions:

Generates app/Actions/PlaceOrderAction.php:

The Action suffix is added automatically. Passing PlaceOrderAction produces the same result — no double suffix.

--dto option

Pass --dto to generate an accompanying DTO and wire it into execute():

Generates both app/Actions/PlaceOrderAction.php and app/DTOs/PlaceOrderData.php:

make:dto

Creates a standalone DTO in app/DTOs without an Action:

Generates app/DTOs/PlaceOrderData.php (same structure as above). The Data suffix is added automatically — passing PlaceOrderData produces the same result.

DTOs and MapsFromArray

Every generated DTO uses the MapsFromArray trait, which maps an array (e.g. from $request->validated()) to constructor properties.

Defining a DTO

Creating instances

From a controller with a validated form request:

Or from any array:

Mapping resolution order

For each constructor parameter, the trait resolves the value in this order:

  1. #[MapFrom('key')] — explicit array key (highest priority).
  2. Exact camelCase name — e.g. customerName matches array key customerName.
  3. snake_case fallback — e.g. customerName also matches customer_name.
  4. Default value or nullable — uses the parameter's default, or null if nullable.
  5. InvalidArgumentException — thrown when a required key is missing.

Testing

License

The MIT License (MIT). See LICENSE for details.

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illuminate/contracts Version ^13.0
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