Insular

Insular is a software architecture to build scalable Laravel projects in a modern, clear and modular way.

Insular is latin word which means "Having a narrow view of the world." and that is how modules are suppose to be structured. 🔥🔥

Table of contents

• Installation
• Snowflake
• Available commands
• Managing Modules
• Managing Features
• Managing Operations
• Managing Jobs
• Managing Controllers
• Managing Migrations
• Managing Models
• Managing Resources
• Managing Requests
• Managing Types
• Managing Exception

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require MagedAhmad/insular

Snowflake

We use snowflake for ids, by default newly created models with the custom command will use the Snowflake trait. you can read more about snowflake here

Available commands

Target	Command
Create new module	php artisan create:module $name
Create new feature	php artisan create:feature $name $module
Create new operation	php artisan create:operation $name $module
Create new job	php artisan create:job $name $module
Create new controller	php artisan create:controller $name $module
Create new migration	php artisan create:migration $name $module
Create new model	php artisan create:model $name $module
Create new type	php artisan create:type $name $module
Create new resource	php artisan create:resource $name $module
Create new request	php artisan create:request $name $module
Create new exception	php artisan create:exception $name $module

Modules

You start by building the main block in your application which is a Module.

Modules are like mini laravel applications where each module contains everything needed to build this module.

php artisan create:module $name 

example:

php artisan create:module Auth

this will create module structure in Modules\Auth

Features

Feature can be used when you have multiple operations related to some action and you would repeat these operations more than once, so you can create a feature and reuse it later on.

php artisan create:feature $name $module 

example:

php artisan create:feature LoginUserFeature Auth

this will create feature in Modules\Auth\Features\LoginUserFeature

Operations

Operation is the main building block where most logic would go, it might contain multiple jobs.

php artisan create:operation $name $module

example:

php artisan create:operation LoginUserOperation Auth

this will create file in Modules\Auth\Operations\LoginUserOperation

Jobs

Jobs are the smallest unit on our system. you can use it to avoid duplication of small shrunks of code . you should only use it when you are sure that you would use it multiple times, otherwise operation should be just fine to hold the logic in it.

php artisan create:job $name $module

example:

php artisan create:job LoginUserJob Auth

this will create file in Modules\Auth\Jobs\LoginUserJob

Controllers

php artisan create:controller $name $module

example:

php artisan create:controller LoginController Auth

this will create file in Modules\Auth\Http\Controllers\LoginController

Migrations

you only need to write the migration name like users, products, categories, no need to type create_users_table .

php artisan create:migration $name $module

example:

php artisan create:migration users Auth

this will create file in Modules\Auth\database\migrations\users

Models

Models use snowflake trait by default

php artisan create:model $name $module

example:

php artisan create:model User Auth

this will create file in Modules\Auth\Models\User

Resources

Resources can be used to map data before sending in the response .

php artisan create:resource $name $module

example:

php artisan create:resource UserResource Auth

this will create file in Modules\Auth\Http\Controllers\Resource\UserResource

Requests

can be used for validating incoming request data .

php artisan create:request $name $module

example:

php artisan create:request UserRequest Auth

this will create file in Modules\Auth\Http\Controllers\Requests\UserRequest

Types

Types can be used for internal handling of data between classes

php artisan create:type $name $module

example:

php artisan create:type UserData Auth

this will create file in Modules\Auth\Types\UserData

Exception

php artisan create:exception $name $module

example:

php artisan create:exception UserNotFoundException Auth

this will create file in Modules\Auth\Exceptions\UserNotFoundException

Testing

vendor/bin/pest 

TODO

1- Work on a global response for all requests. 2- Provide easy way to test/view apis. 3- Switch between Pest and phpunit

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

• Maged Ahmed
• Osama Kamel

License

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