Laravel Devtoolbox

Swiss-army artisan CLI for Laravel — Scan, inspect, debug, and explore every aspect of your Laravel application from the command line.

✨ Features

Laravel Devtoolbox provides comprehensive analysis tools for Laravel applications:

• 🔎 Deep Application Scanning - Complete analysis of models, routes, services, and more
• 🧠 Model Introspection - Analyze Eloquent models, relationships, and usage patterns
• 🛣️ Route Analysis - Inspect routes, detect unused ones, and analyze middleware
• 📦 Service Container Analysis - Examine bindings, singletons, and providers
• ⚙️ Environment Auditing - Compare configuration files and detect inconsistencies
• 🔄 SQL Query Tracing - Monitor and analyze database queries for specific routes
• 📊 Multiple Export Formats - JSON, Markdown, Mermaid diagrams, and more
• 🛠 Developer Experience - Rich console output with actionable insights

📦 Installation

Install via Composer as a development dependency:

composer require --dev grazulex/laravel-devtoolbox

Requirements:

• PHP 8.3+
• Laravel 11.0+ | 12.0+

🚀 Quick Start

# See all available commands
php artisan list dev:

# Enhanced application overview (new!)
php artisan dev:about+ --extended --performance

# Quick health check of your application
php artisan dev:scan --all

# Find where a model is used
php artisan dev:model:where-used App\Models\User

# Detect unused routes
php artisan dev:routes:unused

# Find routes by controller (reverse lookup - new!)
php artisan dev:routes:where UserController

# Generate model relationship diagram
php artisan dev:model:graph --format=mermaid --output=models.mmd

# Trace SQL queries for a route
php artisan dev:sql:trace --route=dashboard

# Analyze SQL queries for N+1 problems (new!)
php artisan dev:sql:duplicates --route=users.index --threshold=3

# Monitor logs in real-time (new!)
php artisan dev:log:tail --follow --level=error

# Compare environment files
php artisan dev:env:diff --against=.env.example

# Analyze database column usage
php artisan dev:db:column-usage --unused-only

# Security scan for unprotected routes
php artisan dev:security:unprotected-routes --critical-only

# Analyze container bindings (new!)
php artisan dev:container:bindings --show-resolved

# Service provider performance analysis (new!)
php artisan dev:providers:timeline --slow-threshold=100

🔍 Available Commands

General Scanning & Analysis

• dev:scan - Comprehensive application analysis with multiple scanner types
• dev:about+ - Enhanced version of Laravel's about command with extended information

Model Analysis

• dev:models - List and analyze all Eloquent models
• dev:model:where-used - Find where specific models are used
• dev:model:graph - Generate model relationship diagrams

Route Analysis

• dev:routes - Inspect application routes
• dev:routes:unused - Detect potentially unused routes
• dev:routes:where - Find routes by controller/method (reverse lookup)

Database Analysis

• dev:db:column-usage - Analyze database column usage across the Laravel application codebase
• dev:sql:trace - Trace SQL queries for specific routes
• dev:sql:duplicates - Analyze SQL queries for N+1 problems, duplicates, and performance issues

Security Analysis

• dev:security:unprotected-routes - Scan for routes that are not protected by authentication middleware

Service & Container Analysis

• dev:services - Examine service container bindings
• dev:container:bindings - Analyze container bindings, singletons, and dependency injection mappings
• dev:providers:timeline - Analyze service provider boot timeline and performance
• dev:commands - List and analyze artisan commands

Middleware Analysis

• dev:middleware - Analyze middleware classes and usage
• dev:middlewares:where-used - Find where specific middleware is used

View Analysis

• dev:views - Scan Blade templates and views

Environment & Logging

• dev:env:diff - Compare environment configuration files
• dev:log:tail - Monitor Laravel logs with real-time filtering and pattern matching

📊 Export Formats

All commands support multiple output formats:

Format	Usage	Best For
Array/Table	--format=array (default)	Interactive development
JSON	--format=json	Automation, CI/CD
Count	--format=count	Quick metrics
Mermaid	--format=mermaid	Documentation, diagrams

Save to Files

# Export to JSON
php artisan dev:models --format=json --output=models.json

# Generate Mermaid diagram
php artisan dev:model:graph --format=mermaid --output=relationships.mmd

# Save comprehensive scan
php artisan dev:scan --all --format=json --output=app-analysis.json

🛠 Configuration

Publish the configuration file to customize behavior:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=devtoolbox-config

This creates config/devtoolbox.php where you can customize:

• Default output formats
• Scanner-specific options
• Performance settings
• Export configurations

📚 Documentation

Comprehensive documentation and examples are available in our GitHub Wiki:

• Getting Started - Quick start guide
• Commands Reference - Detailed command documentation
• Configuration - Configuration options
• Examples & Use Cases - Practical usage examples
• CI/CD Integration - Automation workflows
• Output Formats - Export format examples

🔧 Examples & Automation

Daily Development Workflow

# Check application health
php artisan dev:scan --all --format=count

# Find cleanup opportunities
php artisan dev:routes:unused
php artisan dev:env:diff

CI/CD Integration

# Quality gates in CI
UNUSED_ROUTES=$(php artisan dev:routes:unused --format=count | jq '.count')
if [ $UNUSED_ROUTES -gt 10 ]; then
  echo "Too many unused routes: $UNUSED_ROUTES"
  exit 1
fi

Documentation Generation

# Generate project documentation
php artisan dev:models --format=json --output=docs/models.json
php artisan dev:model:graph --format=mermaid --output=docs/relationships.mmd
php artisan dev:routes --format=json --output=docs/routes.json

For complete automation scripts and CI/CD configurations, visit our Wiki Examples.

🔍 Use Cases

• 🔍 Code Reviews - Generate comprehensive application overviews
• 📊 Performance Analysis - Identify slow queries and bottlenecks
• 🧹 Technical Debt - Find unused routes, orphaned models, and inconsistencies
• 📖 Documentation - Auto-generate up-to-date application structure docs
• ⚡ CI/CD Quality Gates - Automated quality checks and thresholds
• 🎯 Onboarding - Help new team members understand application structure

🆕 Version Compatibility

Laravel Devtoolbox	PHP Version	Laravel Version	Status
1.x	8.3+	11.x | 12.x	✅ Active

Note: This package now fully supports both Laravel 11 and Laravel 12, ensuring compatibility across the latest LTS and current releases.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

📄 License

Laravel Devtoolbox is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

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