Laravel Package

This PHP package will help you to create packages for Laravel more easily, at least for me.

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Installation and usage

Just run the command:

composer require asciito/laravel-package

Then, we need to follow just a couple of rules of how to organize our package folders. so we will follow the Laravel convention.

<your-package>
├─ src
│   ├─ Console
│   │   └─ Commands
│   │       └─ ...
│   └─ YourPackageServiceProvider.php
├─ config
│   └─ package-config.php
├─ database
│   └─ migrations
│       ├─ your_package_migration_table.php
│       ├─ other_package_migration_table.php
│       └─ ...
├─ test
│   └─ ...
├─ composer.json
├─ composer.lock
├─ README.md
├ ...
.

Note:

You can edit the structure of the folders following the Edit Folder structure section

Now, on your service provider, you should declare two methods to put your package to work. One is the method static::configurePackage(Package $package) and static::getNamespace().

This is the most basic configuration of a Service Provider, but this doesn't do much for you. If you want to register your commands, config files, and migrations files you need to chain more method calls to the package.

class LaravelPackageServiceProvider extends PackageServiceProvider
{
    protected function configurePackage(Package $package): void
    {
        $package->setName('<your-package-name>');
    }
}

Register commands

To register your package commands call the method static::withCommands(string|string[] ...$command). Just for now don't worry about the method signature, if you just call the method this will register the commands from the default command folder <your-package-folder>/src/Console/Commands.

protected function configurePackage(Package $package): string
{
    $package
        ->setName('<your-package-name>')
        ->withCommands();
}

Register config files

To add config files is the same as the last section, just call the method static::withConfig(string|array $config = [], bool $publish = false). For now don't worry about the signature, the only important ting about is if you call the method you would be able to load and publish all your config files.

protected function configurePackage(Package $package): string
{
    $package
        ->setName('<your-package-name>')
        ->withConfig();
}

With this you should be able to publish all your config files just by calling the command php artisan vendor:publish --tag=<your-package-name>-config and that's it, all your config files from your package would be published, and as the last section, your default folder should be <your-package-folder>/config.

Register migration files

To register our migration just call the method static::withMigrations(string|array $config = [], bool $publish = false). Just for now don't worry about the method signature, if you just call the method this will register the commands from the default migrations folder <your-package-folder>/database/migrations.

protected function configurePackage(Package $package): string
{
    $package
        ->setName('<your-package-name>')
        ->withMigrations();
}

With this you should be able to publish all your migration files just by calling the command php artisan vendor:publish --tag=<your-package-name>-migrations and that's it, all your migration files from your package would be published, and as the last section, your default folder should be <your-package-folder>/database/migrations.

Note:

Laravel doesn't discover your package by default, so you need to register manually your Service Providers (before v5.5) but you can instruct Laravel to auto-discover you package by adding your Service Provider in your composer.json to the property extra (v5.5 or later).

Something like this:

{
  "extra": {
      "laravel": {
          "providers": [
              "Vendor\\YourPackageName\\YourPackageServiceProvider"
          ]
      }
  }
}

If you add your Service Provider to this property, Laravel will auto-discover your package.

You can learn more on Laravel Official Documentation

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Documentation

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Edit Folder Structure

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License

laravel-package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.