laravel-model-ts-type

Generate TypeScript types based on your models.

Usage

Installation

Install the package using composer:

composer require --dev scrumble-nl/laravel-model-ts-type

Generating types

php artisan types:generate {--modelDir=} {--outputDir=} {--model=} {--noKebabCase}

Additional options:

Option	Default value	Description
modelDir	app/Models	The root directory where the package can find all Laravel models
outputDir	resources/js/models	The root directory for outputting the .d.ts files
namespace	false	The namespace of the generated Types. Use false if you don't prefer to have one
noKebabCase	false	Whether the file name should be formatted to kebab case
model	null	Choose to generate a model for a specific file. For example you can use App\Models\User
indentationSpaces	4	The amount of spaces used for indentation
export_types	true	Whether to export the types or not.

If you want to change the default values you can publish the config file and change it to you liking.

NOTE: Do not forget to add the directory to your typeroots in tsconfig.json

What does it do?

This package takes (almost) all off Laravel's magic into account. It follows these steps for generating a Type:

1. Retrieve all fields from te database (only MySQL/MariaDB supported) and map them to default types (string, number, etc.)
2. Add relations for the Model, they will point to the related generated Type
3. Add the attribute getters for the Model
4. Check the casts attribute
5. Remove all fields that are in the hidden attribute

Example output

export type Company = {
    id: number;
    name: string;
    created_at: string /* Date */ | null;
    updated_at: string /* Date */ | null;
    slug: string;
    welcome_message: string | null;
    contact_information: string | null;
    main_color: string | null;
    logo_src: string | null;
    user_field: any[];
    language: any[];
    team_site: any[];
    is_api_enabled: boolean;
    kaizen_user_field: string;
    faqs?: Faq[] | null;
    users?: User[] | null;
    team_properties: TeamProperty[] | null;
    editor_images: EditorImage[] | null;
    meta_data?: any[];
};

Roadmap

• Add tests (in progress)
• Generate types for packagized models
• Create command to generate type for 1 model
• Implement unqualified name for relation doc blocks

Contributing

If you would like to see additions/changes to this package you are always welcome to add some code or improve it.

Scrumble

This product has been originally developed by Scrumble for internal use. As we have been using lots of open source packages we wanted to give back to the community. We hope this helps you getting forward as much as other people helped us!