Fast Workflow in Laravel With Repository Pattern Generators

This Laravel package provides a variety of generators to speed up your development process. These generators include:

• snowman:baserepo
• snowman:baserepointerface
• snowman:model
• snowman:presenter
• snowman:repo
• snowman:repointerface
• snowman:reposerviceprovider
• snowman:resource
• snowman:scaffold

Requirements

• PHP 5.4+
• Laravel 4.2

Installation

Begin by installing this package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require yhbyun/snowman.

"require-dev": {
	"yhbyun/snowman": "dev-master"
}

Next, update Composer from the Terminal:

composer update --dev

Once this operation completes, the final step is to add the service provider. Open app/config/app.php, and add a new item to the providers array.

'Yhbyun\Snowman\SnowmanServiceProvider'

That's it! You're all set to go. Run the artisan command from the Terminal to see the new snowman commands.

php artisan

Usage

• Scaffolding
• Resources
• Configuration

Scaffolding

The snowman:scaffold command will do a number of things for you:

• Generate a application folder
• Generate a base repository
• Generate a base repository interface
• Generate a repository service provider

Example

php artisan snowman:scaffold acme

This single command will give you boilerplate for:

• Application Folder

  • app/Acme
  • app/Acme/Presenters
  • app/Acme/Providers
  • app/Acme/Repos
  • app/Acme/Repos/Eloquent

• app/Acme/Providers/RepoServiceProvider.php

• app/Acme/Repos/BaseRepoInterface.php

• app/Acme/Repos/Eloquent/BaseRepo.php

Resources

The snowman:resource command will do a number of things for you:

• Generate a model
• Generate a model repository
• Generate a model repository interface
• Generate a model presenter
• Add binding in RepoServiceProvider.php

Example

php artisan snowman:resource acme post

This single command will do the following work:

• app/Acme/Presenters/PostPresenter.php
• app/Acme/Providers/RepoServiceProvider.php : add binding
• app/Acme/Repos/PostRepoInterface.php
• app/Acme/Repos/Eloquent/PostRepo.php
• app/Acme/Post.php

Configuration

You may want to modify your templates - how the generated files are formatted. To allow for this, you need to publish the templates that, behind the scenes, the generators will reference.

php artisan snowman:publish-templates

This will copy all templates to your app/templates directory. You can modify these however you wish to fit your desired formatting. If you'd prefer a different directory:

php artisan snowman:publish-templates --path=app/foo/bar/templates

When you run the snowman:publish-templates command, it will also publish the configuration to app/config/packages/yhbyun/snowman/config/config.php. This file will look somewhat like:

<?php

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Where the templates for the generators are stored...
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    */
    'model_template_path' => '/Users/yhbyun/my-project/app/templates/model.txt',
    'repo_template_path' => '/Users/yhbyun/my-project/app/templates/repo.txt',
    'repo_interface_template_path' => '/Users/yhbyun/my-project/app/templates/repo_interface.txt',
    'baserepo_template_path' => '/Users/yhbyun/my-project/app/templates/baserepo.txt',
    'baserepo_interface_template_path' => '/Users/yhbyun/my-project/app/templates/baserepo_interface.txt',
    'presenter_template_path' => '/Users/yhbyun/my-project/app/templates/presenter.txt',
    'reposerviceprovider_template_path' => '/Users/yhbyun/my-project/app/templates/reposerviceprovider.txt',


    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Where the generated files will be saved...
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    */

    'target_parant_path'	=> app_path(),
];

Also, while you're in this file, note that you can also update the default target directory for each generator.

Laravel 4 Generators

This package is based upon a Jeffrey Way's generators, which is an indispensable packgage in Laravel.