Laravel Recipe

Generator framework for Laravel built on Laravel.

Installation

On Laravel 5.5:

    composer require exfriend/laravel-recipe

Basic Usage

In order to generate any entity you basically need two things: a template and the actual data.

Recipe uses Laravel's Blade as a template engine for stubs, so the basic usage is very similar to how you return views from controllers.

Let's write our first recipe that would generate any class.

1. Create a new view inside resources/views/recipe folder:

resources/views/recipe/class.blade.php

{!! '<'.'?php' !!}

@unless(empty( $namespace ))
namespace {{ $namespace }};
@endunless

@unless(empty( $imports ))
@foreach( $imports as $import)
import {{ $import }};
@endforeach
@endunless

class {{ $class }} {{ isset($extends) ? 'extends '. $extends : '' }} {{ !empty($implements) ? 'implements '. collect($implements)->implode(', ') : '' }}
{
@unless(empty($traits))
    use {{ collect($traits)->implode(', ') }};
@endunless

@isset($content)
    {!! $content !!}
@endisset
}

Then anywhere in your code you can run:

 
   $recipe = recipe()->usingView( 'recipes.class' )->with( [
        'namespace' => 'App',
        'class' => 'User',
        'extends' => 'Authenticatable',

        'imports' => [
            'Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable',
            'Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable',
            'Laravel\Passport\HasApiTokens',
        ],

        'traits' => [
            'HasApiTokens',
            'Notifiable',
        ],
//            'implements' => [ 'SomeInterface', 'OtherInterface' ],
    ] );
    

Get the compiled code:

    dd( $recipe->build() )

Save to file:

    $recipe->build( app_path('User.php') );

Now let's create a dedicated class for this recipe to make it easier.

app/Recipes/ClassRecipe.php

<?php
 
namespace App\Recipes;
 
 
class ClassRecipe extends \Exfriend\Recipe\Recipe
{
    
    public $props = [
        'class' => [
            'rules' => 'required',
        ],
        'content' => [ 'default' => '', ],
        'imports' => [ 'default' => [], ],
    ];
 
    protected $view_name = 'recipes.class';
     
}
 

Here you can notice that we're hardcoding the template name and defining a new $props variable which is somewhat similar to what Vue uses in it's components.

Two important things happen here:

First, we added some validation telling Recipe that class property is mandatory in this recipe. You can set the rules property just like you normally would in your Laravel application - that's the same thing.

Second, we're setting default values for content and import. Those defaults will be applied if the user does not provide anything as the input.

So, our resulting usage will now look like this:

    $recipe = ( \App\Recipes\ClassRecipe::class )->with( [
        'namespace' => 'App',
        'class' => 'User',
        'extends' => 'Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User',
    ] )
    ->build( app_path('User.php') );

An important note:

Because of props, the actual data passed to a template will be slightly different from what we passed in. For example, it will have content and imports. Sometimes you would like to just get the transformed data withour compiling the whole template (e.g. for nested recipes, see below). To only get the compiled data, run:

    $recipe = ( \App\Recipes\ClassRecipe::class )->with( [
        ...
    ] )
    ->buildData();

Since we are generating a model here and model is something we'd like to generate often, it makes sense to create a dedicated Model recipe based on a general class recipe we already have. Let's make a simple Model recipe:

app/Recipes/ModelRecipe.php

Advanced Usage

Coming soon.