Laravel Singleton Auto Discovery

Automatically registers your classes as singletons in Laravel's DI container.

The Problem

In Laravel by default if you have something injected by calling app(SomeClass::class) or App::make(SomeClass::class) or by a type hint on a method, it will give you a new instance of that class each time. e.g.

app(SomeClass::class) === app(SomeClass::class); // false

To solve this you need to explicitly tell the DI container that you want SomeClass to be a singleton, like this:

app()->singleton(SomeClass::class);

If you have lots of classes you want to be singletons it gets tedious to have to write the app()->singleton() call for every one.

The Solution

This package automatically scans your app directory for any classes that implement the SingletonInterface interface. For any it finds it registers them as a singleton with the DI container.

This is very similar to the pattern that Laravel's built in event discovery follows (since 5.8.9).

Installation

composer require antriver/laravel-singleton-discovery

Add SingletonDiscoveryServiceProvider to your list of providers in config/app.php:

    'providers' => [
        // ...
        Antriver\LaravelSingletonDiscovery\SingletonDiscoveryServiceProvider::class,
        // ...
    ],

Commands

The directory will be scanned each time the app starts up. This is probably what you want during development but will affect performance in production. You can use the singletons:cache command to cache the discovered singletons to avoid that. The singletons:clear command clears the cached file.