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A developer-friendly Laravel package to generate models, migrations, controllers, requests, resources, factories, policies, observers, services, notifications, and traits using a modern Livewire-powered UI.

This package is designed to accelerate API development in Laravel by providing a visual interface for defining models, fields, relationships, and scaffolding complete REST endpoints.

🚀 Features

• REST API Generator: Instantly scaffold Models, Controllers, Migrations, Services, Resources, Requests, and more.
• Livewire UI: Interactive, dynamic interface for rapid development.
• Trait Support: Easily add reusable traits to your models via the UI.
• Validation & Error Handling: Smart file handling with overwrite protection.
• Highly Configurable: Customize paths, namespaces, route prefixes, and stub templates.
• Smart File Placement: Files are created in Laravel-standard folders.
• Log Viewer: View package logs directly from the UI for troubleshooting and transparency.

🧩 Requirements

• Laravel 12+
• PHP 8.2+
• Livewire 3
• spatie/laravel-query-builder

📦 Installation

1. Install via Composer:

   composer require sevenspan/code-generator --dev

2. Publish the configuration and migrations:

   php artisan vendor:publish --tag=code-generator-config
   php artisan vendor:publish --tag=code-generator-migrations

3. (Optional) Customize configuration:

   Edit config/code-generator.php to set route paths, folder locations, and stub templates as needed.

📽️ Demo

![Watch the demo]

🖥️ Usage

1. Access the UI

   Visit:

   http://yourdomain.com/code-generator
   

2. Define your model, fields, and relationships

   • Use the UI to add fields (columns), set data types, validation, and foreign keys.
   • Add Eloquent relationships visually (hasOne, hasMany, belongsToMany, etc.).
   • Select which files to generate (model, migration, controller, etc.).
   • Optionally, select other features like traits, observers, and notifications.

3. Generate Files

   • Click "Generate" to scaffold all selected files in your Laravel app.

📜 Logs

• The package provides a log viewer in the UI to help you review generation activity and errors.
• To clear the logs, run the following Artisan command: 🔹 Manually (Artisan)

  php artisan code-generator:clear-logs --days

• option days will clear logs older than provided days.

🔹 Automatically (Laravel 12+) Add this in bootstrap/app.php:

scheduler()
    ->command('code-generator:clear-logs')
    ->daily(); // or weekly/monthly

⚙️ Configuration

The main configuration file is published at config/code-generator.php.
You can customize:

• Route path and prefix
• Folder paths for generated files
• Stub templates for each file type

🧑‍💻 Contributing

Pull requests and issues are welcome!

• Fork the repo
• Create a new branch: git checkout -b feature/my-feature
• Commit your changes and push
• Open a Pull Request

📄 License

The MIT License (MIT).

Happy coding! 🚀