README

Quickly spin up a new Filament powered application.

Filament Installer is a command-line tool that replaces the Laravel installer and wraps up the most common tasks you might take when creating a Filament app: opening it in your editor and your browser, initialize a git repository, tweak your .env and .env.example, and more.

Requirements

• PHP 8.0+
• (optional, but beneficial) Laravel Valet

Installation

composer global require awcodes/filament-installer

Upgrading

composer global update awcodes/filament-installer

Usage

Make sure ~/.composer/vendor/bin is in your terminal's path.

cd ~/<code-directory>
filament new my-cool-filament-app

What exactly does it do?

• filament new $PROJECTNAME
• Initialize a git repo, add all the files, and, after some changes below, make a commit with the text "Initial commit."
• Replace the .env (and .env.example) database credentials with the default macOS MySQL credentials: database of $PROJECTNAME, user root, and empty password
• Replace the .env (and .env.example) APP_URL with $PROJECTNAME.$YOURVALETTLD
• Generate an app key
• Set up dark mode (if opted in)
• Scaffold custom theme assets (if opted in)
• Install and setup Filament Breezy, Filament Shield, or Filament Sentry (if opted in)
• Open the project in your favorite editor
• Open $PROJECTNAME.$YOURVALETTLD in your browser

Note: If your $PROJECTNAME has dashes (-) in it, they will be replaced with underscores (_) in the database name.

There are also a few optional behaviors based on the parameters you pass (or define in your config file), including creating a database, migrating, running Valet Link and/or Secure, and running a custom bash script of your definition after the fact.

Customizing Filament Installer

While the default actions Filament Installer provides are great, most users will want to customize at least a few of the steps. Thankfully, Filament Installer is built to be customized!

There are three ways to customize your usage of Filament Installer: command-line arguments, a config file, and an "after" file.

Most users will want to set their preferred configuration options once and then never think about it again. That's best solved by creating a config file.

But if you find yourself needing to change the way you interact with Filament Installer on a project-by-project basis, you may also want to use the command-line parameters to customize Filament Installer when you're using it.

Creating a config file

You can create a config file at ~/.filament/config rather than pass the same arguments each time you create a new project.

The following command creates the file, if it doesn't exist, and edits it:

filament edit-config

The config file contains the configuration parameters you can customize, and will be read on every usage of Filament Installer.

Creating an "after" file

You can also create an after file at ~/.filament/after to run additional commands after you create a new project.

The following command creates the file, if it doesn't exist, and edits it:

filament edit-after

The after file is interpreted as a bash script, so you can include any commands here, such as installing additional composer dependencies...

# Install additional composer dependencies as you would from the command line.
echo "Installing Composer Dependencies"
composer require awcodes/filament-quick-create spatie/laravel-ray

...or copying additional files to your new project.

# To copy standard files to new filament project place them in ~/.filament/includes directory.
echo "Copying Include Files"
cp -R ~/.filament/includes/ $PROJECTPATH

You also have access to variables from your config file such as $PROJECTPATH and $CODEEDITOR.

Using command-line parameters

Any command-line parameters passed in will override Filament Installer's defaults and your config settings. See a full list of the parameters you can pass in.

Filament Installer Commands

• help or help-screen show the help screen

• edit-config edits your config file (and creates one if it doesn't exist)

  filament edit-config

• edit-after edits your "after" file (and creates one if it doesn't exist)

  filament edit-after

Configurable parameters

You can optionally pass one or more of these parameters every time you use Filament Installer. If you find yourself wanting to configure any of these settings every time you run Filament Installer, that's a perfect use for the config files.

• -e or --editor to define your editor command. Whatever is passed here will be run as $EDITOR . after creating the project.

  # runs "subl ." in the project directory after creating the project
  filament new my-cool-filament-app --editor=subl

• -p or --path to specify where to install the application.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --path=~/Sites

• -m or --message to set the first Git commit message.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --message="This filament runs fast!"

• -f or --force to force install even if the directory already exists

  # Creates a new Laravel application after deleting ~/Sites/my-cool-filament-app
  filament new my-cool-filament-app --force

• -d or --dev to choose the develop branch instead of master, getting the beta install.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --dev

• -b or --browser to define which browser you want to open the project in.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --browser="/Applications/Google Chrome Canary.app"

• -l or --link to create a Valet link to the project directory.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --link

• -s or --secure to secure the Valet site using https.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --secure

• --create-db to create a new MySQL database which has the same name as your project. This requires mysql command to be available on your system.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --create-db

• --migrate-db to migrate your database.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --migrate-db

• --dbuser to specify the database username.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --dbuser=USER

• --dbpassword specify the database password.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --dbpassword=SECRET

• --dbhost specify the database host.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --dbhost=127.0.0.1

• --dark to use the Filament dark mode by default.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --dark

• --themed to scaffold out the assets needed for a custom Filament theme.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --themed

• --mix to revert Laravel to Laravel Mix instead of Vite

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --mix

• --breezy to install and setup Filament Breezy (authentication plugin).

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --breezy

• --shield to install and setup Filament Shield (authorization plugin).

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --shield

• --sentry to install and setup Filament Sentry (authentication, with Breezy, authorization, with Shield and Filament User Resources plugin).

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --sentry

• --full to use --create-db, --migrate-db, --link, and -secure.

  filament new my-cool-filament-app --full
  

GitHub Repository Creation

Important: To create new repositories Filament Installer requires one of the following tools to be installed:

• the official GitHub command line tool
• the hub command line tool

Filament Installer will give you the option to continue without GitHub repository creation if neither tool is installed.

• -g or --github to Initialize a new private GitHub repository and push your new project to it.

# Repository created at https://github.com/<your_github_username>/my-cool-filament-app
filament new my-cool-filament-app --github

• Use --gh-public with --github to make the new GitHub repository public.

filament new my-cool-filament-app --github --gh-public

• Use --gh-description with --github to initialize the new GitHub repository with a description.

filament Installer new my-cool-filament-app --github --gh-description='My cool Filament application'

• Use --gh-homepage with --github to initialize the new GitHub repository with a homepage url.

filament Installer new my-cool-filament-app --github --gh-homepage=https://example.com

• Use --gh-org with --github to initialize the new GitHub repository with a specified organization.

# Repository created at https://github.com/acme/my-cool-filament-app
filament new my-cool-filament-app --github --gh-org=acme