johnylemon/explainer-lumen

Explainer for Laravel

A simple Laravel api documentation generator

Features

This tool makes possible to explain every app route by using simple explain method via clean document accessible under configured route address.

Installation

• add \Lemon\ExplainerLumen\Providers\ExplainerLumenServiceProvider to your app/bootstrap.php file
• add $this->configure('explainer') to your app/bootstrap.php file after provider line
• change bootstrap Application to provided by this package by changingthis lines

// $app = new Laravel\Lumen\Application(
//     dirname(__DIR__)
// );

into this

$app = new Lemon\ExplainerLumen\Application(
    dirname(__DIR__)
);

• copy vendor/johnylemon/explainer/config/explainer.php file to your config directory

How to use

Simply call explain method on your routes:

$router->get('/', 'IndexController@index')->explain(\App\Explains\IndexRouteExplain::class);

Examples

Explain file generation

To generate route explain file with name IndexRouteExplain in app/Explains directory simply type:

php artisan explain:route IndexRouteExplain

Explain example generation

To generate route explain example file with name ValidationExample in app/Explains/Examples directory simply type:

php artisan explain:example ValidationExample

generate documentation

Simply type

php artisan explain

and... enjoy!