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The idea for this package is to streamline the process of sharing enums values between backend and frontend.

If you use Laravel as a backend for a frontend framework like Nuxt or Next, and they both live in the same project, you can utilize it to generate a json file from your enums.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require saas-laravel/laravel-enums-to-json

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="laravel-enums-to-json"

This is the contents of the published config file:

return [
    // The disk, defined in filesystem.php, where json files will be stored
    'disk' => 'public',

    // The folder on that disk where json will be generated
    'path' => '/shared',

    'enum_locations' => [
        app_path(),
    ],
];

Usage

In order to use the package, you need to add SaasLaravel\LaravelEnumsToJson\Attributes\EnumToJson attribute to your enum

Example usage:

<?php

namespace App\Enums;

use SaasLaravel\LaravelEnumsToJson\Attributes\EnumToJson; 

#[EnumToJson] //add attribute
enum CastType: int
{
    case Boolean = 0;
    case Integer = 1;
    case String = 2;

    // (optional) A way to customize the generated file name
    public static function jsonFileName(): string
    {
        return 'cast';
    }
}

Then you'd run a command to generate the json files.

php artisan enum-to-json:generate

Customizing the name

By default, it generates a file named as a normalized version of the enum name - that'd be cast_type.json if the example above didn't contain the jsonFileName method. However, because it is present, it'd generate cast.json instead.

Testing

composer test

Credits

• przemyslaw-przylucki
• All Contributors

License

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