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.
- 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
- Installation
- Usage
- Lifecycle Hooks
- Name
- Short name
- Config
- Routing
- Migrations
- Translations
- Commands
- Views
- View Components
- View Component Namespaces
- View Composers
- Shared Data
- Assets
- Providers
- About Command
- Publishing
- Testing
- License
You can install the package via composer:
composer require nyoncode/laravel-package-toolkit
To use Laravel Package Builder, create a ServiceProvider for your package that extends
NyonCode\LaravelPackageToolkit\PackageServiceProvider
:
use NyonCode\LaravelPackageToolkit\PackageServiceProvider;
use NyonCode\LaravelPackageToolkit\Packager;
use NyonCode\LaravelPackageToolkit\Contracts\Packable;
class MyAwesomePackageServiceProvider extends PackageServiceProvider implements
Packable
{
public function configure(Packager $packager): void
{
$packager
->name('My Awesome Package')
->hasConfig()
->hasRoutes()
->hasMigrations()
->hasTranslations()
->hasViews();
}
}
For more control over your package configuration, you can use additional methods and specify custom paths:
use NyonCode\LaravelPackageToolkit\PackageServiceProvider;
use NyonCode\LaravelPackageToolkit\Packager;
use NyonCode\LaravelPackageToolkit\Contracts\Packable;
class AdvancedPackageServiceProvider extends PackageServiceProvider implements
Packable
{
public function configure(Packager $packager): void
{
$packager
->name('Advanced package')
->hasShortName('adv-pkg')
->hasConfig('custom-config.php')
->hasRoutes(['api.php', 'web.php'])
->hasMigrations('custom-migrations')
->hasTranslations('lang')
->hasViews('custom-views')
->hasComponents([
'data-table' => DataTable::class,
'modal' => Modal::class,
]);
}
public function registeringPackage(): void
{
// Custom logic before package registration
}
public function bootingPackage(): void
{
// Custom logic before package boot
}
}
You can also use the when()
method to conditionally register resources:
use NyonCode\LaravelPackageToolkit\PackageServiceProvider;
use NyonCode\LaravelPackageToolkit\Packager;
use NyonCode\LaravelPackageToolkit\Contracts\Packable;
class ConditionalPackageServiceProvider extends PackageServiceProvider implements
Packable
{
public function configure(Packager $packager): void
{
$packager
->name('Conditional package')
->hasRoutes(['api.php', 'web.php'])
->hasMigrations('custom-migrations')
->hasTranslations('lang')
->hasViews('custom-views')
->when($this->isInLocal(), function ($packager) {
$packager->hasConfig('local-config.php')
$packager->hasCommands();
})->when($this->isInProduction(), function ($packager) {
$packager->hasConfig('production-config.php')
$packager–>hasRoutes('web.php');
});
}
}
Local and production resources will be registered when the isInLocal()
and isInProduction()
methods return true
.
Here is a list of all available life cycle hooks:
Hook Method | Description |
---|---|
registeringPackage() |
Called before register() is called |
registeredPackage() |
Called after register() is called |
bootingPackage() |
Called before boot() is called |
bootedPackage() |
Called after boot() is called |
Define a name for the package:
$packager->name('Package 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')
:
$packager->hasShortName('custom-short-name');
To enable configuration in your package:
$packager->hasConfig();
By default, this will load configuration from the config
directory. For custom config files:
$packager->hasConfig(['config.php', 'other-config.php']);
Or for specific file paths:
$packager->hasConfig([
'../www/config/config.php',
'../api/config/other-config.php',
]);
To use an alternative directory for config files.
$package->hasConfig(directory: 'customConfig');
To enable routing in your package:
$packager->hasRoutes();
By default, this will load routes from the routes
directory. For custom route files:
$packager->hasRoutes(['api.php', 'web.php']);
Or for specific file paths:
$packager->hasRoute(['../www/routes/web.php', '../api/routes/api.php']);
To use an alternative directory for route files.
$package->hasRoute(['web.php'], 'webRouter');
To enable migrations:
$packager->hasMigrations();
This loads migrations from the database/migrations
directory. For a custom directory:
$packager->hasMigrations('custom-migrations');
Or for specific file paths:
$packager->hasMigrations([
'../www/database/migrations/2023_01_01_000000_create_users_table.php',
'../api/database/migrations/2023_01_01_000001_create_roles_table.php',
]);
To use an alternative directory for migration files.
$package->hasMigrations(
['2023_01_01_000000_create_users_table.php'],
'userMigrations'
);
For more information about migrations, see Laravel migrations.
$packager->canLoadMigrations();
To enable translations:
$packager->hasTranslations();
This loads translations from the lang
directory and automatically supports JSON translations.
For a custom directory:
$packager->hasTranslations('../custom-lang-directory');
To enable commands:
$packager->hasCommands();
Defaults to loading commands from the Commands
directory.
To use an alternative directory for command files.
$packager->hasCommands(directory: 'custom-commands');
For single command:
$packager->hasCommand('\Vendor\Package\Commands\CustomCommand::class');
Or for specific file names:
$packager->hasCommands([
'\Vendor\Package\Commands\CustomCommand::class',
'\Vendor\Package\Commands\OtherCommand::class',
]);
For more information about commands, see Laravel commands.
To enable views:
$packager->hasViews();
This loads views from the resources/views
directory. For a custom directory:
$packager->hasViews('custom-views');
To register multiple view components:
$packager->hasComponents(
prefix: 'nyon',
components: [
'data-table' => DataTable::class,
'modal' => Modal::class,
Sidebar::class,
]
);
To register a single view component with an optional alias:
$packager->hasComponent('nyon', Alert::class, 'custom-alert');
You can then use these components in your Blade templates:
<x-nyon-data-table :data="$users"/>
<x-nyon-modal title="User Details">
<!-- Modal content -->
</x-modal>
<x-nyon-sidebar id="sidebar"/>
<x-nyon-custom-alert type="warning" message="This is a warning!"/>
To register multiple view component namespaces:
$packager->hasComponentNamespaces(
namespaces: [
'nyon' => 'App\View\Components\Alert',
'admin' => 'App\View\Components\Modal',
]
);
To register a single view component namespace with an optional alias:
$packager->hasComponentNamespace('nyon', 'App\View\Components\Alert');
You can then use these namespaces in your Blade templates:
<x-nyon::alert :data="$users"/>
<x-admin::modal title="User Details">
<!-- Modal content -->
</x-admin-modal>
To register multiple view composers:
$packager
->hasViewComposer(
views: 'nyon',
composers: fn($view) => $view->with('test', 'test-value')
)->hasViewComposer(
views: ['viewName', 'anotherViewName'],
composers: MyViewComposer::class
)
);
To add shared data to views:
$packager->hasSharedDataForAllViews(['key', 'value']);
This adds a key-value pair to the shared data array in the view.
For more information about shared data, see Laravel shared data.
To enable assets:
$packager->hasAssets();
This loads assets from the public
directory. For a custom directory:
$packager->hasAssets('../dist');
To enable service providers:
$packager->hasProvider('../stubs/MyProvider.stub');
Support for multiple service providers:
$packager->hasProvider('../stubs/MyProvider.stub')
->hasProvider('../stubs/MyOtherProvider.stub');
Laravel Package Builder provides methods to add package information to Laravel's php artisan about command.
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.
$packager->hasAbout();
The hasVersion() method lets you manually set the version of your package:
$packager->hasVersion('1.0.0');
If no version is manually set, the package will automatically retrieve the version from your composer.json file.
You can extend the about command information by implementing the aboutData()
method in your service provider:
public function aboutData(): array
{
return [
'Repository' => 'https://github.com/your/package',
'Author' => 'Your Name',
];
}
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.
For publishing, you can use the following commands:
php artisan vendor:publish
vendor:publish
show all the tags that can be used for publishing.
Use php artisan vendor:publish --tag=package-name::config
for publish configuration files.
composer test
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