Laravel Truss - Live ER diagram of your database structure, inside your app

[albertoarena]

Hi, and thanks for maintaining Package Ocean. Sharing a package I built that fits the developer-tooling niche.

Truss renders your database as a scrollable, zoomable ER diagram right inside your Laravel app. It introspects the live schema (tables, columns, indexes, foreign keys) using Laravel's native Schema methods, caches a snapshot, and draws it with Mermaid. Structure only: it never reads or exposes a single row of data.

• Repo: https://github.com/albertoarena/laravel-truss
• Packagist: albertoarena/laravel-truss
• Docs and live demo: https://trussphp.com

Why it might be useful

• See how your schema actually looks without leaving the app or opening a desktop DB client.
• Focus mode isolates a table and its relationships; pan and zoom handle large schemas.
• No Doctrine DBAL. It uses Laravel's native schema introspection.
• Mermaid and the frontend assets are vendored and served from the package, so there is no CDN dependency. It works offline and under a strict CSP.
• Also ships terminal helpers: truss:show, truss:open, truss:rebuild.
• MIT, PHP 8.3+, Laravel 12+.

Happy to answer any questions.