Divide your laravel application in modules, the laravel way

Introduction

This package is made to allow you to divide everything laravel allow you to make but divided in modules.

I ended up making this package even if other are doing exactly the same thing because after trying to work with them, after some time I always found them incomplete, no longer maintained, not respecting laravel standards and ideas (having module:make-controller command instead of make:controller, another file structure etc) so after trying 3-4 modules I got frustrated and starting making my own package trying to not reproduce the mistakes I saw earlier.

Here are the result, I hove you will like it as much as I do ! This is my first public package so please fell free to send me any suggestions, questions, bug report, feature request you may have !

Versioning

This package follow Semantic Versioning, see : https://semver.org/

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require bchalier/laravel-modules

Commands

All the standard make commands are extended with a -M|module=[module alias] options, here an example :

php artisan make:model -Muser UnicornModel

As it is an extend and not a replacement all options are available and working (or should be !)

php artisan make:model -cfmr -Muser UnicornModel

The package also add some commands for dealing with the modules themselves :

• make:module {modules*} {?--fill} : make one or more new module, use the --fill option to add all possible elements in the newly created module.
• module:install {modules*} : install one or more module (in bdd)
• module:reinstall {modules*} : reinstall the module (update bdd), useful
• module:uninstall {modules*} : uninstall one or more module (keep files, clean bdd)
• module:enable {modules*} : load the module (the files will always be loader by composer but the providers, routes etc will only if the module is enabled)
• module:disable {modules*} : disable the module
• module:delete {modules*} : delete the bdd AND FILES of the module, be careful, this command will delete all your module files and uninstall it.

Structure

The insides of a module is pretty much just a normal laravel, here an example (make it yourselves with php artisan make:module test --fill) :

modules/Test/
├── app
│   ├── Broadcasting
│   │   └── DummyChannel.php
│   ├── Console
│   │   ├── Commands
│   │   │   └── DummyCommand.php
│   │   └── Kernel.php
│   ├── Events
│   │   └── DummyEvent.php
│   ├── Exceptions
│   │   └── DummyException.php
│   ├── Http
│   │   ├── Controllers
│   │   │   └── DummyController.php
│   │   ├── Middleware
│   │   │   └── DummyMiddleware.php
│   │   ├── Requests
│   │   │   └── DummyRequest.php
│   │   └── Resources
│   │       └── DummyResource.php
│   ├── Jobs
│   │   └── DummyJob.php
│   ├── Listener
│   │   └── DummyListener.php
│   ├── Mail
│   │   └── DummyMail.php
│   ├── Models
│   │   └── DummyModel.php
│   ├── Notification
│   │   └── DummyNotification.php
│   ├── Observers
│   │   └── DummyObserver.php
│   ├── Policies
│   │   └── DummyPolicy.php
│   ├── Providers
│   │   └── DummyProvider.php
│   ├── Rules
│   │   └── DummyRule.php
│   └── Services
│       └── DummyService.php
├── composer.json
├── config
│   ├── superconfig.php
├── database
│   ├── factories
│   │   └── DummyFactory.php
│   ├── migrations
│   │   └── 2019_07_04_105604_dummy_migration.php
│   └── seeds
│       ├── DatabaseSeeder.php
│       └── DummySeeder.php
├── resources
│   └── lang
│       ├── en
│       │   └── exceptions.php
│       └── fr
│           └── exceptions.php
├── routes
│   ├── api.php
│   ├── channels.php
│   ├── console.php
│   └── web.php
└── tests
    ├── Feature
    │   └── DummyTest.php
    └── Unit
        └── DummyTest.php

Composer

At the root of your module you have a composer.json, same as the one you know with just a bit extra, you will find an example bellow.

IT DOES NOT INSTALL PACKAGES, would you want to look into wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin but it's not compatible with composer 2.

{
  "name": "Core",
  "description": "A perfect description for a brand new module !",
  "keywords": [
    "module",
    "laravel"
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "require": {
    "php": "^7.1"
  },
  "extra": {
    "laravel-modules": {
      "name": "Core",
      "alias": "core",
      "description": "The core module, for module management.",
      "install": {
        "migrate": true,
        "createDir": "modules"
      },
      "loadParameters": {
        "compartmentalize": {
          "migrations": true
        }
      },
      "providers": [
        "SystemModules\\Core\\App\\Providers\\EventServiceProvider",
        "SystemModules\\Core\\App\\Providers\\CommandExtendProvider"
      ],
      "aliases": {
        "Test": "Illuminate\\Support\\Facades\\App",
        "ModulesManager": "SystemModules\\Core\\Services\\ModulesManager"
      }
    }
  }
}

Here what that mean :

• name : literally whatever you want, simply a cosmetic value.
• alias : this is what you will be using in every command.
• description : a description, duh.
• install.migrate : migrate the migrations on module installation.
• install.createDir : create a dir of you liking on installation.
• loadParameters.compartmentalize.migrations : isolate the migration from the rest of your app, in this example the migration for the modules table will not be called on any of the migrate commands except for the migrate:fresh because it drop all tables regardless of migrations, you'll have to install all your modules again after this one.
• providers : list all the providers you want to load in your module.
• aliases : list all the aliases you want to have in your module.

Remember that you will have to call php artisan module:reinstall YOUR_MODULE_ALIAS for updating the settings above.

.env

Here are some settings added that may be used in your .env :

API_PREFIX='web' // a prefix for all the web routes, '' by default
WEB_PREFIX='api' // a prefix for all the api routes, 'api' by default

MODULES_CONFIG_PATH='modules.json' // the location of the global config file (it store the installed modules)

That's pretty much it, there probably plenty of room for improvement so I'm waiting your comments on this !