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Warning This Package is still work in progress!

Warning The package is basically functional, but there is no logic to handle the files in a repo.

Modular Monolith Laravel Env

The task of this package is to manage module dotnev-files used by the Laravel integration of phpdotenv. To store these files in source control without populating its contents to tjhe public the package is also based on Laravels environment encrypting by a shared secret. This way the package can also be used for forge or envoyer deployments.

• This package is inspired by the Laracon Online Winter '22 talk by Ryuta Hamasaki: "Modularising the Monolith" (slides | gitHub) and though of as an extension for such approaches.

Systemrequirements

• This package is only tested with Laravel 9. So it requires "vlucas/phpdotenv": "^5.4.1".
• The package is written in PHP 8.1.

Installation

To install you have to replace the Kernel-classes of Laravel.

app/Http/Kernel.php

// replace
5: use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel as HttpKernel;

// with
5: use RedFreak\ModularEnv\Foundation\Http\Kernel as HttpKernel;

app/Console/Kernel.php

// replace
6: use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel;

// with
6: use RedFreak\ModularEnv\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel;

Testing

run in develope

./vendor/bin/phpunit

How to use

getting started

The package assumes that the including package is structured following the modular monolith talk with the additional dotenv-files by this logic:

.
├── app
├── .env
├── ...
├── src
│    ├── ModuleOne
│    │    ├── ...
│    │    └── .env
│    ├── ...
│    └── ModuleLast
│         ├── ...
│         └── .env
└── ...

If your structure is different you have to implement the ModularEnvironmentApplication-Contract into your application. By the method ModularEnvironmentApplication::additionalEnvFiles() the package will recognize different paths (* and ** are allowed and used like in the .gitignore).

using the variables

Variables form the default .env are accessed like before with the env()-helper.

Variables from the modules are accessed the same way with the difference that they are prefixed with the module name in SNAKE_CASE (caps) and __. E.g. the Variable HELLO=WORLD from the file /src/FooBar/.env can be accessed by env('FOO_BAR__HELLO').

tasks

tasks for 0.3.0 - encrypting the files

• support for env:encrypt and env:decrypt to handle the files
• implementing modular_env:encrypt and modular_env:deecrypt to support deployment processes

1.0.0-alpha

• maybe writing additional tests
• adding a test-pipeline for gitHub
• fixing and testing of 0.3.0 in real-life-environments

1.0.0 - MVP

• fixed release of 1.0.0-alpha

1.1.0 - LaravelRay

• support for LaravelRay

recommendations

use the following in your .gitignore

.env
.env.*
!.env.example
!.env*.encrypted
!.env.pipelines
/src/**/.env
/src/**/.env.*
!/src/**/.env*.encrypted
!/src/**/.env.example

Why do I?

Why do I have to replace Kernel-Classes?

I see, replacing the Kernel is a big issue. But .env-files are bootstrapped before anything else, so we have to hook something before everything else. The Kernels are present and inheriting, so it's a good point to hook in.

Need to create my own Application class?

You don't have to it's just a possibility to determine a custom path-structure on your dotenv-files. The default "setting" will be to guess files in /src/**/.

Need to create my own Application class if I have a custom path-structure on my .env-files?

The problem for this package is, that we want to hook a behaviour which is deep in the functionality of Laravel. At the moment the dotenv-files are loaded there is just a "stub" of the Application, there is no way to use config or env. So this seemed the best option to not produce unnecessary disk-requests. This is especially important for applications handling hundreds of requests per second.

Licence

This package is free to use as stated by the LICENCE.md under the MIT License, but you can buy me a coffee if you want :D.