Module loader inside your Laravel app

The zonneplan/laravel-module-loader package provides an easy to use module loader which can be used to modulize your project.

How to use

First install the package, see the installation section.

Creating a new module:

• Create a folder, for example: Modules in the app directory.
• After that create another one, for example: User.
• In the root of that folder insert a UserServiceProvider which extends our abstract Module class.
• Implement the function getModuleNamespace() like:

namespace Modules\User;

use Zonneplan/ModuleLoader/Module;

class UserServiceProvider extends Module
{
    public function getModuleNamespace(): string
    {
        return 'user';
    }
}

• Register the UserServiceProvider in the config/app.php file.

'providers' => [
    Modules\User\UserServiceProvider::class
]

Structure within the module:

The expected structure is seen below. Most of it is optional.

app
├── Modules
    ├──MyModule
       ├──Config
       ├──Console
       ├──Database
          ├──Factories
          ├──Migrations
       ├──Exceptions
       ├──Http
          ├──Controllers
          ├──Middleware
          ├──Requests
          ├──Resources
       ├──Resources
          ├──lang
          ├──views
       ├──Routes
          ├──web.php            
          ├──api.php            
          ├──channels.php       
          ├──console.php        
       ├──MyModuleServiceProvider.php
       ├──tests

Access a view from the module:

To access a view from a module it will look like 'my-module::path.to.view'

For example:

// In a controller
view('user::index');

// In a blade file
@include('user::index');
@include('user::partials.form');

Registering Policies:

To register policies overwrite the $policies variable in the ServiceProvider of your module

For example:

protected $policies = [
    MyModel::class => MyModelPolicy::class,
];

Registering Middleware:

To register middleware overwrite the $middleware variable in the ServiceProvider of your module

For example:

protected $middleware = [
    'my-middleware' => MyMiddleware::class,
];

Registering Events & Listeners:

To register events & listeners overwrite the $listen variable in the ServiceProvider of your module

For example:

protected $listen = [
    MyEvent::class => [
        MyListener::class
    ],
];

Registering Event Subscribers:

To register event subscribers overwrite the $subscribe variable in the ServiceProvider of your module

For example:

protected $subscribe = [
    MySubscriber::class
];

Registering routes:

All modules will by default try to load all route files in the Routes folder. Any of the following files will be auto loaded:

routes.php api.php web.php

Requirements

This package requires at least Laravel 6 or higher, PHP 7.2 or higher

Installation

composer require zonneplan/laravel-module-loader

The package will automatically register itself.

Register the namespace: "Modules\\": "app/Modules" in composer.json like:

 "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/",
            "Modules\\": "app/Modules"
        },
        ...

Authors

• Aron Rotteveel
• Dennis Stolmeijer
• Wout Hoeve
• Johnny Borg
• Rick Gout
• Thijs Nijholt