How create package in Laravel 5?

Question

php artisan workbench vendor/package --resources

command is not available in laravel 5, but how now create package in laravel 5 ?

Answer 1

Shameless self-promotion, but I've written a post about this called "Creating Laravel 5 packages for dummies" that explains how to create the package, how to put it on GitHub & Packagist and how to push changes/new versions afterwards.

If you're already familiar with creating packages in Laravel 4, the fastest solution I've found was to use this CLI tool.

Answer 2

In Laravel, these are some handy tricks I follow each time I need to create a Laravel package

• Solution 1: Get a boilerplate template from https://github.com/cviebrock/laravel5-package-template, and put it under packages/ (follow the instruction in the repo)

• Solution 2: Use a packager (with Laravel >= 5.5)

  • Install packager it as dev dependency > composer require jeroen-g/laravel-packager --dev (check instruction in the repo here)
  • create the package > composer require jeroen-g/laravel-packager --dev etc, see full tuto
  • then, we have a choice to keep the package in our project, or just remove it by rollingback composer.json

Hope this is a good update for Laravel lovers ;)

Answer 3

The laravel workbench has been renamed in laravel 5 to "Package Development" in the documentation

http://laravel.com/docs/master/packages

Notice that there is no longer a workbench command and you need to create your own package structure, as the Laravel creator want to limit the dependency between created packages and the Laravel framework (#ref)

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UPDATE: Laravel 5 is now stable and the illuminate/workbench package can be used in a laravel 5 application as I suggested in this post