Laravel Shift Blueprint

December 19, 2019 / Paul Redmond

Laravel Shift Blueprint is a code generation tool for Laravel developers by Jason McCreary:

Blueprint is an open-source tool for rapidly generating multiple Laravel components from a single, human-readable definition.

Blueprint works by using a draft file (YAML) that contains definitions of the components it should generate. The readme provides an example draft.yml file in the root of a Laravel v6.x project:

models:
  Post:
    title: string:400
    content: longtext
    published_at: nullable timestamp

controllers:
  Post:
    index:
      query: all
      render: post.index with:posts

    store:
      validate: title, content
      save: post
      send: ReviewNotification to:post.author with:post
      dispatch: SyncMedia with:post
      fire: NewPost with:post
      flash: post.title
      redirect: post.index

The draft file produces a Post model with fillable fields, attribute casts, dates, and relationships. For a full list of examples, be sure to check out the project’s readme.

The quickest way to understand what Blueprint is all about is watching this Building Blueprint demo:

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