Laravel Simple CRUD Generator

An artisan make:crud command to create a simple CRUD feature on our Laravel 5.5 application. This package is fairly simple, to boost test-driven development method on our laravel application.

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About this package

With this package installed on local environment, we can use (e.g.) php artisan make:crud Vehicle command to generate some files :

• App\Vehicle.php eloquent model
• xxx_create_vehicles_table.php migration file
• VehiclesController.php
• index.blade.php and forms.blade.php view file in resources/views/vehicles directory
• resources/lang/vehicle.php lang file
• VehicleFactory.php model factory file
• VehiclePolicy.php model policy file in app/Policies directory
• ManageVehiclesTest.php feature test class in tests/Feature directory
• VehicleTest.php unit test class in tests/Unit/Models directory
• VehiclePolicyTest.php unit test class in tests/Unit/Policies directory

It will update some file :

• Update routes/web.php to add vehicles resource route
• Update app/providers/AuthServiceProvider.php to add Vehicle model Policy class in $policies property

It will also create this file if it not exists :

• resources/lang/app.php lang file if it not exists
• tests/BrowserKitTest.php base Feature TestCase class if it not exists

Main purpose

The main purpose of this package is for faster Test-driven Development, it generates model CRUD scaffolds complete with Testing Classes which will use Laravel Browserkit Testing package and PHPUnit version 6.

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How to install

For Laravel 5.5 or later

# Get the package
$ composer require luthfi/simple-crud-generator --dev

For Laravel 5.5 or later, the package will auto-discovered and ready to go.

For Laravel 5.4

# Bootstrap Form Field generator
$ composer require luthfi/formfield

# Get the package
$ composer require luthfi/simple-crud-generator:1.0.* --dev

Update config/app.php, add provider and aliases :

// providers
Luthfi\FormField\FormFieldServiceProvider::class,
Luthfi\CrudGenerator\ServiceProvider::class,

// aliases
'FormField' => Luthfi\FormField\FormFieldFacade::class,
'Form'      => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
'Html'      => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,

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How to use

Just type in terminal $ php artisan and we will find the make:crud command, it will create simple Laravel CRUD files of given model name.

Available Commands

# Create Full CRUD feature with tests
$ php artisan make:crud

# Create API CRUD feature with tests
$ php artisan make:crud-api

# Create Simple CRUD feature with tests
$ php artisan make:crud-simple

Model Attribute/column

The Model and table will only have 2 pre-definded attributes or columns : name and description on each generated model and database table. You can continue working on other column on the table.

For example we want to create CRUD for 'App\Vehicle' model.

$ php artisan make:crud-simple Vehicle

Vehicle resource route generated on routes/web.php.
Vehicle model generated.
Vehicle table migration generated.
VehiclesController generated.
Vehicle index view file generated.
Vehicle form view file generated.
lang/app.php generated.
vehicle lang files generated.
Vehicle model factory generated.
Vehicle model policy generated.
AuthServiceProvider class has been updated.
BrowserKitTest generated.
ManageVehiclesTest generated.
VehicleTest (model) generated.
VehiclePolicyTest (model policy) generated.
CRUD files generated successfully!

Make sure we have set our database credential on .env file. Then :

$ php artisan migrate
$ php artisan serve

Then visit our application url: http://localhost:8000/vehicles.

For API

If we want to generate API Controller with feature tests, we use following command :

$ php artisan make:crud-api Vehicle

By default, we use Laravel Token Based Authentication, so we need to update our user model.

1. Add api_token column on our users_table_migration.
2. Add api_token as fillable property on User model.
3. Add api_token field on our UserFactory.

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Config file

You can configure your own by publishing the config file:

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Luthfi\CrudGenerator\ServiceProvider"

That will generate config/simple-crud.php file.

By default, this package have some configuration:

<?php

return [
    // The master view layout that generated views will extends
    'default_layout_view' => 'layouts.app',

    // The base test case class path for generated testing classes
    'base_test_path' => 'tests/BrowserKitTest.php',

    // The base test class full name
    'base_test_class' => 'Tests\BrowserKitTest',
];

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Attention

• The package will creates the Model class file, the command will stop if the Model already exists.
• You need a resources/views/layouts/app.blade.php view file, simply create one with php artisan make:auth command. You can change this configuration via the config/simple-crud.php file.

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Screenshots

Visit your application in new resource route : http://127.0.0.1:8000/vehicles

Generated testing suite

Next, let us try the generated testing suite. To use the generated testing classes, we can set the database environment using in-memory database SQLite. Open phpunit.xml. Add two lines below on the env :

<phpunit>
    <!-- ..... -->
    <php>
        <!-- ..... -->
        <env name="DB_CONNECTION" value="sqlite"/>
        <env name="DB_DATABASE" value=":memory:"/>
    </php>
</phpunit>

Then run PHPUnit

$ vendor/bin/phpunit

All tests should be passed.

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Issue/Proposal

If you find any issue, or want to propose some idea to help this package better, please create an issue in this github repo.

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License

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