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Automate App Setup with Laravel Initializer

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Have you ever found yourself writing multiple manual steps to set up a Laravel application in a new environment? Laravel Initializer is a convenient way to automate installing and updating a Laravel application:

Laravel Initializer gives you the ability to declare multiple processes and run them with app:install and app:update artisan commands, which run predefined actions chain depending on the current environment.

The app:install and app:update commands use two distinct classes that run commands based on a given environment. First, the install command uses the App\Install class:

namespace App;
 
use MadWeb\Initializer\Contracts\Runner;
 
class Install
{
public function production(Runner $run)
{
return $run
->external('composer', 'install', '--no-dev', '--prefer-dist', '--optimize-autoloader')
->artisan('key:generate')
->artisan('migrate', ['--force' => true])
->artisan('storage:link')
->external('npm', 'install', '--production')
->external('npm', 'run', 'production')
->artisan('route:cache')
->artisan('config:cache')
->artisan('event:cache');
}
 
public function local(Runner $run)
{
return $run
->external('composer', 'install')
->artisan('key:generate')
->artisan('migrate')
->artisan('storage:link')
->external('npm', 'install')
->external('npm', 'run', 'development');
}
}

The app:update command looks similar, using an App\Update class:

namespace App;
 
use MadWeb\Initializer\Contracts\Runner;
 
class Update
{
public function production(Runner $run)
{
return $run
->external('composer', 'install', '--no-dev', '--prefer-dist', '--optimize-autoloader')
->external('npm', 'install', '--production')
->external('npm', 'run', 'production')
->artisan('route:cache')
->artisan('config:cache')
->artisan('event:cache')
->artisan('migrate', ['--force' => true])
->artisan('cache:clear')
->artisan('queue:restart'); ->artisan('horizon:terminate');
}
 
public function local(Runner $run)
{
return $run
->external('composer', 'install')
->external('npm', 'install')
->external('npm', 'run', 'development')
->artisan('migrate')
->artisan('cache:clear');
}
}

You can also inject dependencies from the service container if you need to access services while running commands.

This package contains a variety of runner actions you should check out in the readme. I found the MakeCronTask dispatch interesting:

$run->dispatch(new \MadWeb\Initializer\Jobs\MakeCronTask)

MakeCronTask adds the following to the server’s crontab list:

* * * * * cd /path-to-your-project && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

You can do other things like creating a supervisord config for a typical queue worker or horizon.

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at mad-web/laravel-initializer.

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Staff writer at Laravel News. Full stack web developer and author.

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