In this article, I’ll go to through a basic example of how to create a Laravel Package in Laravel with few steps:
1. Create Project
Fresh installation of the Laravel using: “composer create-project –prefer-dist lravel/laravel projectname”.
2. Make Folder For New Package
After install Laravel project, we will follow steps like:
- Create a new folder “packages” inside main root folder.
- Next, inside packages folder we will create another folder which will be our vendor or creator name “digital”.
- Then inside of vendor folder we’ll create another folder with the name of our package name “calc”.
- Lastly we need to create a “src” folder which is where the code for our package will live.
3. Create Composer File For Package
Next, for our packages we need “composer.json” file because every package should have composer.json file, which will contain dependencies and information about the package itself. So inside your terminal navigate to the folder with your package “calc” name and run the following command: “composer init”
“composer.json” file look like:
4. Loading Our Package To Main “composer.json” File
Next, we need to make our package visible to the Laravel structure, open the main “composer.json” file under the root directory and add the namespaces of our packages in “autoload>psr-4”.
After adding this, run this command: “composer dump-autoload”.
5. Creating Service Provider
Next, create a service provider file under your “Packages/digital/calc/src” directory and don’t forget to use your namespace “Vendor\Package_name”. Basically service provider is the main entry of your package. This is where your package is loaded or booted.
6. Configure Service Provider
Next, open “Config/app.php” file and add your service provider inside the “Providers array []”.
7. Create Routes For Package
Next, inside of your “src” folder create a new “routes.php” file and write the following code:
Then go to your Service Provider and add the “routes.php” inside “boot ()” method:
After this, run command “php artisan serve” and enter the URL http://127.0.0.1:8000/calculator in your browser. This we should end up with the page look like:
8. Creating Controller For Package
Inside the packages directory under “src” folder create a new Controller file:
Under this “CalculatorController.php” file don’t forget to include your package namespace and also include the “App\Http\Controllers\Controller;”
9. Register The Controller
After creating the controller we need to register the controller inside our Service Provider class in “register ()” method.
Next, add routes for this controller inside “routes.php” file:
10. Creating Views For Package
To create a view, we need create a “views” folder inside “packages/digital/calc/src” directory then create an “app.blade.php” file inside view folder.
After creating “add.blade.php”, write following code:
11. Register The Views
We need to register the views inside our Service Provider class in “boot ()” method.
12. Navigate Browser
After creating controller, views and register into service provider then navigate the browser look like:
- Addition: http://127.0.0.1:8000/add/14/79
- Multiply: http://127.0.0.1:8000/multiplication/12/12
