Introduction

Laravel Essentials turns on a set of sensible Laravel defaults for you, automatically, as soon as your app boots. There's no code to write — install the package and things like Model::shouldBeStrict() and URL::forceHttps() are already switched on.

Each default is called a "configurable". It's a small class that checks whether it should run, then applies itself. You can turn any of them on or off, or write your own.

How this differs from nunomaduro/essentials

This package is inspired by nunomaduro/essentials and covers similar ground, but configures itself differently:

• Opt-in, not opt-out. Upstream ships every default on and lets you turn individual ones off through a disabled array. Here you list the configurables you want in an explicit, ordered configurables array — see Configuration Reference.
• Each configurable decides for itself. A configurable implements enabled(): bool and configure(): void, so it can be conditionally active (e.g. only in production, or only once a related config key is set) instead of being a flat always-on/always-off toggle.
• Extendable at runtime. Other packages can register their own configurables with Essentials::extend() from their own service provider, without the consuming app touching config/essentials.php at all — see Configurables.

Installation

Install the package with Composer:

composer require foxws/laravel-essentials

If you want to change any settings, publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="essentials-config"

Where to go next

• Configurables — the built-in defaults, and how to write your own.
• Configuration Reference — every option in config/essentials.php.

Looking for Domain Driven Design scaffolding (ddd:install, ddd:make)? That moved to the separate foxws/laravel-ddd package.