einar-hansen/laravel-toolkit

Laravel Toolkit

A collection of helpful utilities and extensions to speed up your Laravel development. This package gives you practical solutions for common Laravel challenges - less code, more power, and faster development for your projects.

From database shortcuts to frontend helpers, Laravel Toolkit simplifies your workflow whether you're building your first app or your hundredth.

Build better Laravel apps, faster.

PHPStan rules and configuration

Publish an opinionated PHPStan configuration in your Laravel application:

composer require --dev larastan/larastan:^3.7
php artisan toolkit:publish:phpstan
vendor/bin/phpstan analyse

The command writes phpstan.neon in your application's root. It asks for confirmation before overwriting the file. Use --backup to preserve an existing file as phpstan.neon.backup, or --force to skip confirmation:

php artisan toolkit:publish:phpstan --backup --force

The published configuration enables Toolkit’s API-message, mailable, resource, SQL, empty-catch and Sleep policies and analyses app/ at level 6 with nullable, uninitialized and dynamic property checks, plus Larastan checks for model properties, Octane compatibility, unnecessary collection calls and env() calls outside configuration files. Adjust paths and level in the published file for your application. See the PHPStan configuration reference and Larastan rules for details.

Larastan must be installed in the consuming application; this package's development dependencies are not installed transitively. If you use phpstan.neon.dist, merge the published settings into it and remove phpstan.neon, which takes precedence.

For an existing project, include vendor/einar-hansen/laravel-toolkit/extension.neon and opt in to the rules you want. All 14 custom rules, policy switches, configuration options and migration steps are documented in Reusable PHPStan rules.

Laravel Boost

This package ships resources/boost/guidelines/core.blade.php and five focused skills for configuration, data helpers, value objects, HTTP features and PHPStan. In a consuming application with Boost installed, run php artisan boost:install and select the package resources. For an existing Boost installation, run php artisan boost:update --discover to discover newly added resources.

See Boost package guidelines and package skills.

Requirements

• Laravel v12 and above

Environment variables

ELOQUENT_STRICT_MODE=true
ELOQUENT_EAGER_LOAD_RELATIONSHIPS=false
APP_ENABLE_AGGRESSIVE_PREFETCHING=true
APP_ENFORCE_HTTPS_SCHEME=true
APP_ENABLE_IMMUTABLE_DATES=true
APP_DISABLE_DESTRUCTIVE_COMMANDS=true
APP_USE_DEFAULT_PASSWORD=true
TESTS_ENABLE_FAKE_SLEEP=true
TESTS_PREVENT_STRAY_REQUESTS=true