jeffersongoncalves/laravel-zero-console

Reusable traits for Laravel Zero commands: output formatting (tables, state colorization, dates), standardized API error handling, and cwd/argument path resolution.

v1.0.1 2026-06-23 01:22 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2
• illuminate/console: ^11.0|^12.0

Requires (Dev)

• laravel/pint: ^1.25
• mockery/mockery: ^1.6
• pestphp/pest: ^3.8|^4.1
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1

MIT

• Jefferson Goncalves

• cli
• console
• traits
• formatting
• table
• laravel-zero

README

laravel-zero-console

Reusable traits for Laravel Zero (and plain Laravel) commands. Extracted from real CLIs that kept copy-pasting the same helpers: output formatting, standardized API error handling, and path resolution.

Why

Every CLI ends up reimplementing the same chores: rendering tables that gracefully handle empty results, colorizing status strings, formatting dates, swallowing API exceptions into clean exit codes, and turning a path argument (or the cwd) into a real filesystem path. This package ships those as small, focused traits.

Installation

composer require jeffersongoncalves/laravel-zero-console

Requires PHP ^8.2 and illuminate/console ^11.0|^12.0.

Traits

FormatsOutput

Use inside an Illuminate\Console\Command (relies on $this->table() and $this->components).

use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use JeffersonGoncalves\LaravelZero\Console\FormatsOutput;

class ListCommand extends Command
{
    use FormatsOutput;

    public function handle(): int
    {
        // Renders a table, or "No results found." when $rows is empty.
        $this->renderTable(['ID', 'State', 'Updated'], $rows);

        $this->line($this->colorize('OPEN', $this->stateColor('OPEN'))); // <fg=blue>OPEN</>
        echo $this->formatDate('2024-01-02 03:04:05');                   // 2024-01-02 03:04
        echo $this->formatDate(null);                                    // -

        return self::SUCCESS;
    }
}

Methods:

• renderTable(array $headers, array $rows): void — renders a table, or an info message when there are no rows.
• colorize(string $value, string $color): string — wraps a value in <fg=color>...</> tags.
• stateColor(string $state): string — case-insensitive lookup of a console color for a state.
• stateColors(): array — the state→color map. Override it to customize. The default merges pull-request states (OPEN, MERGED, DECLINED, SUPERSEDED) with issue-tracker states (TODO, IN PROGRESS, DONE).
• formatDate(?string $date, string $format = 'Y-m-d H:i'): string — formats a date string via DateTime; returns - for null/empty/invalid input.

Customizing the color map:

protected function stateColors(): array
{
    return [
        'SHIPPED' => 'magenta',
        'OPEN' => 'cyan',
    ];
}

HandlesApiErrors

use JeffersonGoncalves\LaravelZero\Console\HandlesApiErrors;

class FetchCommand extends Command
{
    use HandlesApiErrors;

    public function handle(): int
    {
        return $this->handleApiErrors(function () {
            $data = $this->api->fetch(); // may throw any Throwable

            $this->renderTable(['ID'], $data);

            return self::SUCCESS;
        });
    }
}

• handleApiErrors(callable $callback): int — runs the callback; on success returns its int result (or SUCCESS when it returns null); on any Throwable prints the message via $this->components->error() and returns FAILURE.

ResolvesPath

use JeffersonGoncalves\LaravelZero\Console\ResolvesPath;

$path = $this->resolvePath($this->argument('path')); // realpath, or cwd when empty
$cwd  = $this->resolveCwd();                          // realpath of getcwd()

• resolvePath(?string $argument = null): string — resolves an optional argument to its realpath, falling back to the cwd; returns the original input when the path does not exist.
• resolveCwd(): string — the current working directory resolved to its realpath.

Testing

composer install
composer test

License

MIT