README

Description

This package helps you to divide your Laravel project code by features, encapsulated in separate folders. Each feature has its own container, configuration, routes, views and providers. You can enable and disable your features in general config file.

Installation

1. Use following composer command in your terminal:

composer require garmonic/laravel-features-arch

If file config/features.php has not been created, run such command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider='Garmonic\FeaturesArch\Providers\FeatureServiceProvider'

1. Add to composer.json file (section "psr-4" in "autoload") following string:

"Features\\": "features/",

Usage

Creating new feature

To create new feature, run console command:

php artisan make:feature with name of your feature, for example:

php artisan make:feature Warehouse

If you wish to specify routes beginning for feature, use option route with its value, example for beginning /wh/:

php artisan make:feature Warehouse --route=wh

Route base should not start with slash, but can contain it inside. By default, route base will be made from feature name converted to lower case.All routes will be automatically prefixed by specified or generated beginning.

Finally, new folder /features/{your-feature-name} will appear in your project. It will be place of new feature.

Enabling and disabling features

To enable feature, add its name and main class name (Features\\{name}\\Feature::class) to config/features.php (section "list").

To disable it, comment its string in the same config file.

Feature folder files structure

• config/main.php — empty config file for feature.

You can read config from it using Feature::config(). In controller: $this->feature->config('main.config_key', 'default');

Also you can add your own config files to feature config folder and use them in the same way.

• Core/Http/Controllers/MainController — empty controller with one demo method.

You can create your own controllers for feature, each of them should extend Garmonic\FeaturesArch\BaseController and contain correct featureName property.

• Core/Providers/MainServiceProvider.php — empty service provider, you are welcome to add there some bindings (as you do in AppServiceProvider), that will be actual for this feature.

You can use global container (App::singleton() or App::bind()) or feature container ($this->feature->singleton() or $this->feature->bind()).

• Core/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php — this service provider is responsible for loading feature routes. Be careful while changing its code.
• resources/views/home.blade.php — sample view.

You can add your own views and use them in controllers like this: return $this->feature->view('view_name', ['data'=>'some_data']); Also, each view has $feature variable to have access to feature instance.

• routes/api.php — empty API routes file.
• routes/web.php — web routes file with demo route.

Links to feature routes can be generated using Feature::route() method.

In controller: $this->feature->route('route_name', ['data'=>'some_data']);

In view: {{ $feature->route('route_name', ['data'=>'some_data']) }}

About author

Alexey Vasilyev, https://github.com/garmonic