Laravel package development

Notes

If any point, something doesn't make sense, or you made some changes in composer.json of your package: do these (in your test laravel project, not the package project) to ensure the slate is clean: - Clear bootstrap/cache folder content, don't delete the folder - Delete vendor folder - Delete composer.lock - composer install - composer dump-autoload - Re-require your package - If none of these work: call an exorcist. Trust me, it worked.

Resc

• https://laravelpackage.com/02-development-environment/
• [!] https://github.com/spatie/package-skeleton-laravel

Steps

1. git init (duh)

2. composer init

3. add .gitignore

   /vendor/
   /.idea/
   composer.lock
   **/coverage/
   .phpunit.result.cache
   /.phpunit.cache/
   /clover.xml
   

4. Create basic folder structure

5. /src

6. /tests

7. Add orchestra. Enables laravel mocking environment. For type-hint and stuff.

8. Integrate into an actual laravel project for local development and testing purposes

9. composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app
10. cd example-app
11. composer install
12. Add repository target for your package, do this in the laravel project's composer.json:

    "repositories": [
         {
             "type": "path",
             "url": "../path-to-your-package",
             "options": {
                 "symlink": true
             }
         }
     ],
    

13. composer install
14. composer require username/package-name:dev-master (username/package-name should be identical with name key in your package's composer.json.
15. composer install

composer require --dev "orchestra/testbench"