Define Model Attributes With Laravel Fluent

Laravel Fluent is a package by Boris Lepikhin that provides an expressive way to define model attributes. This package automatically builds casts at runtime and gives you native auto-completion of model properties:

// Before

/**
 * @property Collection $features
 * @property float $price
 * @property int $available
 */
class Product extends Model
{
    protected $casts = [
        'features' => 'collection',
        'price' => 'float',
        'available' => 'integer',
    ];
}

// After
use Based\Fluent\Fluent;

class Product extends Model
{
    use Fluent;

    public Collection $features;
    public float $price;
    public int $available;
}

This package supports all native PHP types and laravel primitive casts:

class Order extends Model
{
    use Fluent;

    public int $amount;
    public Carbon $expires_at;

    #[AsDecimal(2)]
    public float $total;

    #[Cast('encrypted:array')]
    public array $payload;
}

This package can also handle model relations. You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.