Laravel Architect¶
Laravel Architect is a highly opinionated application scaffolding tool. By highly opinionated, we mean that there is almost always an assumed default value, which means you only need to define preferences which are different than the defaults.
For example, if you define an ‘Entity’ with the key of Family/Child, Architect will make the following assumptions.
Throughout the application files should namespaced as Family.
A model should be created called Child.
A migration should be created for a table called children.
Be cause no fields were passed, it as assumed the table should have the fields id, name, created_at, updated_at, with name being a varchar(255).
The name field will be added to the Child model as mass assignable.
A Store and Update request will be created for child, which requires, name to be a 255 long string.
A resource and collection file will be created using the JSON API v.1 standard which include name as an attribute.
Then, depending on the frontend being used, various snipits will be created.
This isn’t meant to be no code tool, but rather a tool for minimizing taking care of the repetitive work which comes when you are first starting a project. Once the basics have been scaffolded, you can then go in to make changes to the part which really are custom to your project. As a bonus, you get to have the consistency of every single portion of your application following a consistent design pattern.
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