thejawker/laravel-route-module-macro

Exposes a nice Module concept for routes and Controllers. Enforces CRUD and Restful routes.

Exposes a module concept to enforce a CRUD and Restful way of routing and naming convention.

This package works with Laravel 5.5. It is very much inspired by the great Freek van der Herten with their Blender Package, where he has a Macro for a module. This really resonates with the CRUD/Restful approach on routing.

Installation

Require the package from Composer:

composer require thejawker/laravel-route-module-macro

As of Laravel 5.5 it will magically register the package.

Usage

You can add Route::module('name', ['only'](optional), ['options](optional)) in any of your routes files. The second parameter will allow you to only use specific actions, and the third being general options. Refer to the Laravel docs for those.

Examples:

Full Resource

routes/api.php

Route::module('posts');

$ php artisan route:list
+-----------+-----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Method    | URI                                     | Name          | Action                                                                    |
+-----------+-----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| POST      | api/posts                               | posts.store   | App\Http\Controllers\PostsController@store                                |
| GET|HEAD  | api/posts                               | posts.index   | App\Http\Controllers\PostsController@index                                |
| GET|HEAD  | api/posts/create                        | posts.create  | App\Http\Controllers\PostsController@create                               |
| DELETE    | api/posts/{post}                        | posts.destroy | App\Http\Controllers\PostsController@destroy                              |
| PUT|PATCH | api/posts/{post}                        | posts.update  | App\Http\Controllers\PostsController@update                               |
| GET|HEAD  | api/posts/{post}                        | posts.show    | App\Http\Controllers\PostsController@show                                 |
| GET|HEAD  | api/posts/{post}/edit                   | posts.edit    | App\Http\Controllers\PostsController@edit                                 |
+-----------+-----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Only Resource

routes/api.php

Route::module('posts', ['store']);

$ php artisan route:list
+-----------+-----------------------------------------+---------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Method    | URI                                     | Name          | Action                                                                     |
+-----------+-----------------------------------------+---------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| POST      | api/posts                               | posts.store   | App\Http\Controllers\PostsController@store                                 |
+-----------+-----------------------------------------+---------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Nested Resources

This will enforce you to write Controllers that make sense. A nested users.posts will require you to create a UserPostsController with the required actions. routes/api.php

Route::module('users.posts');

$ php artisan route:list
+-----------+-----------------------------------------+---------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Method    | URI                                     | Name                | Action                                                                     |
+-----------+-----------------------------------------+---------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| POST      | api/users/{user}/posts                  | users.posts.store   | App\Http\Controllers\UserPostsController@store                             |
| GET|HEAD  | api/users/{user}/posts                  | users.posts.index   | App\Http\Controllers\UserPostsController@index                             |
| GET|HEAD  | api/users/{user}/posts/create           | users.posts.create  | App\Http\Controllers\UserPostsController@create                            |
| DELETE    | api/users/{user}/posts/{post}           | users.posts.destroy | App\Http\Controllers\UserPostsController@destroy                           |
| PUT|PATCH | api/users/{user}/posts/{post}           | users.posts.update  | App\Http\Controllers\UserPostsController@update                            |
| GET|HEAD  | api/users/{user}/posts/{post}           | users.posts.show    | App\Http\Controllers\UserPostsController@show                              |
| GET|HEAD  | api/users/{user}/posts/{post}/edit      | users.posts.edit    | App\Http\Controllers\UserPostsController@edit                              |
+-----------+-----------------------------------------+---------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Test

This package definitely needs some extensive testing.

composer test

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.