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📦 Laravel package toolkit

Laravel Package toolkit is a powerful tool designed to streamline the process of creating and managing packages for Laravel. It provides a set of intuitive abstractions and helper methods for common package development tasks, enabling developers to focus on building features rather than boilerplate code.

Features

• Simple and expressive package configuration
• Automatic handling of routes, migrations, translations, and views
• Support for view components
• Built-in exception handling for package-specific errors
• Comprehensive language support

Support Laravel

• Laravel 9.x
• Laravel 10.x
• Laravel 11.x
• Laravel 12.x

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • Basic Configuration
  • Advanced Configuration
• Lifecycle Hooks
• Name
• Short name
• Config
• Routing
• Middlewares
• Migrations
• Translations
• Commands
• Views
• View Components
• View Component Namespaces
• View Composers
• Shared Data
• Assets
• Providers
• About Command
• Publishing
• Testing
• License

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

Usage

Basic Configuration

To use Laravel Package Builder, create a ServiceProvider for your package that extends NyonCode\LaravelPackageToolkit\PackageServiceProvider:

Advanced Configuration

For more control over your package configuration, you can use additional methods and specify custom paths:

Conditional registration resources

You can also use the when() method to conditionally register resources:

Local and production resources will be registered when the isInLocal() and isInProduction() methods return true.

Lifecycle Hooks

Here is a list of all available life cycle hooks:

Name

Define a name for the package:

Short name

Define a custom short name for the package. The hasShortName method is used to modify the name defined by name() if you prefer not to use the short version from $packager->name('Package name'):

Config

To enable configuration in your package:

By default, this will load configuration from the config directory. For custom config files:

Or for specific file paths:

To use an alternative directory for config files.

Routing

To enable routing in your package:

By default, this will load routes from the routes directory. For custom route files:

Or for specific file paths:

To use an alternative directory for route files.

Middlewares

To register middleware for your package, use these methods:

Register Middleware Aliases

To define route middleware aliases:

This allows you to assign the middleware to routes using its alias:

Register Middleware Groups

To push middleware into existing middleware groups:

This will automatically add your middleware to the specified groups (e.g. web, api).

Register Middleware Globally

To register global middleware (executed for every request):

This middleware will be added to the middleware group core is useful for applying middleware to all routes regardless of their group.

Migrations

To enable migrations:

Or for specific file paths:

This loads migrations from the database/migrations directory. For a custom directory:

To use an alternative directory for migration files.

For more information about migrations, see Laravel migrations.

Use migration without publishing

Translations

To enable translations:

This loads translations from the lang directory and automatically supports JSON translations.

For a custom directory:

Commands

To enable commands:

Defaults to loading commands from the Commands directory. To use an alternative directory for command files.

For single command:

Or for specific file names:

For more information about commands, see Laravel commands.

Views

To enable views:

This loads views from the resources/views directory. For a custom directory:

View Components

To register multiple view components:

To register a single view component with an optional alias:

You can then use these components in your Blade templates:

View Component Namespaces

To register multiple view component namespaces:

To register a single view component namespace with an optional alias:

You can then use these namespaces in your Blade templates:

View Composers

To register multiple view composers:

View Shared Data

To add shared data to views:

This adds a key-value pair to the shared data array in the view.

For more information about shared data, see Laravel shared data.

Assets

To enable assets:

This loads assets from the public directory. For a custom directory:

Providers

To enable service providers:

Support for multiple service providers:

About Command

Laravel Package Builder provides methods to add package information to Laravel's php artisan about command.

hasAbout()

The hasAbout() method allows you to include your package's information in the Laravel About command. By default, it will include the package's version.

hasVersion()

The hasVersion() method lets you manually set the version of your package:

If no version is manually set, the package will automatically retrieve the version from your composer.json file.

Customizing About Command Data

You can extend the about command information by implementing the aboutData() method in your service provider:

This method allows you to add custom key-value pairs to the About command output for your package. When you run php artisan about, your package's information will be displayed in a dedicated section. This implementation allows for flexible and easy inclusion of package metadata in Laravel's system information command.

Publishing

For publishing, you can use the following commands:

vendor:publish show all the tags that can be used for publishing.

Example of using tags:

Use php artisan vendor:publish --tag=package-name::config for publish configuration files.

Testing

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.