lumosolutions/actionable

Provides a clean, elegant way to create dispatchable and runnable actions in Laravel with built-in array conversion capabilities

v1.1.1 2025-06-07 16:18 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.3

Requires (Dev)

• larastan/larastan: ^2.9||^3.0
• laravel/pint: ^1.22
• orchestra/testbench: ^10.0.0||^9.0.0||^8.22.0
• pestphp/pest: ^3.0

MIT

• Richard Anderson

• laravel
• array conversion
• actions
• runnable
• dispatchable

README

Installation • Quick Start • Features • Documentation • Examples

Transform your Laravel code into clean, testable, and reusable actions. Say goodbye to bloated controllers and hello to elegantly organized business logic!

💡 Why Actionable?

Ever found yourself writing the same business logic patterns over and over? Controllers getting too fat? Service classes becoming a mess? Actionable is here to save the day!

// ❌ The old way - Fat controllers, messy code
class UserController extends Controller
{
    public function register(Request $request)
    {
        // Validation logic...
        // User creation logic...
        // Email sending logic...
        // Queue processing...
        // 200 lines later...
    }
}

// ✅ The Actionable way - Clean, focused, reusable
RegisterUser::run($userData);

🎯 Key Features

🏃‍♂️ Runnable Actions

Execute business logic with a single, expressive call. No more hunting through service classes!

📬 Dispatchable Actions

Seamlessly queue your actions for background processing. It's as easy as changing run() to dispatch()!

💡 Smart Code Completion

Full IntelliSense support with auto-completion for runnable and dispatchable actions across all major IDEs.

🔄 Smart Array Conversion

Convert between arrays and objects effortlessly with our powerful attribute system. Perfect for APIs!

🛠️ Artisan Generators

Scaffold Actions and DTOs in seconds with our intuitive Artisan commands.

🎨 Flexible Attributes

Fine-tune serialization behavior with elegant attributes like #[FieldName], #[DateFormat], and more!

📦 Installation

composer require lumosolutions/actionable

That's it! No configuration needed. Start writing better code immediately.

🚀 Quick Start

Your First Action in 30 Seconds

1️⃣ Generate an action:

php artisan make:action SendWelcomeEmail

2️⃣ Define your logic:

class SendWelcomeEmail
{
    use IsRunnable;

    public function handle(string $email, string $name): void
    {
        Mail::to($email)->send(new WelcomeEmail($name));
    }
}

3️⃣ Use it anywhere:

SendWelcomeEmail::run('[e-mail]', 'John Doe');

That's it! Clean, testable, reusable. 🎉

📚 Documentation

⚡ Actions

Actions are the heart of your application's business logic. They're single-purpose classes that do one thing and do it well.

Basic Actions

class CalculateOrderTotal
{
    use IsRunnable;

    public function handle(Order $order): float
    {
        return $order->items->sum(fn($item) => $item->price * $item->quantity);
    }
}

// Usage
$total = CalculateOrderTotal::run($order);

Queueable Actions

Need background processing? Just add a trait!

class ProcessVideoUpload
{
    use IsRunnable, IsDispatchable;

    public function handle(Video $video): void
    {
        // Heavy processing logic here
    }
}

// Run synchronously
ProcessVideoUpload::run($video);

// Or dispatch to queue
ProcessVideoUpload::dispatch($video);

// Use a specific queue
ProcessVideoUpload::dispatchOn('video-processing', $video);

🗄️ Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)

DTOs with superpowers! Convert between arrays and objects seamlessly.

class ProductData
{
    use ArrayConvertible;

    public function __construct(
        public string $name,
        public float $price,
        public int $stock
    ) {}
}

// From request data
$product = ProductData::fromArray($request->validated());

// To API response
return response()->json($product->toArray());

🏷️ Powerful Attributes

#[FieldName] - API-Friendly Naming

class UserResponse
{
    use ArrayConvertible;

    public function __construct(
        #[FieldName('user_id')]
        public int $userId,
        
        #[FieldName('full_name')]
        public string $fullName
    ) {}
}

#[DateFormat] - Date Formatting Made Easy

class EventData
{
    use ArrayConvertible;

    public function __construct(
        #[DateFormat('Y-m-d')]
        public DateTime $date,
        
        #[DateFormat('H:i')]
        public DateTime $startTime
    ) {}
}

#[ArrayOf] - Handle Nested Objects

class ShoppingCart
{
    use ArrayConvertible;

    public function __construct(
        #[ArrayOf(CartItem::class)]
        public array $items
    ) {}
}

#[Ignore] - Keep Secrets Secret

class UserAccount
{
    use ArrayConvertible;

    public function __construct(
        public string $email,
        
        #[Ignore]
        public string $password,
        
        #[Ignore]
        public string $apiSecret
    ) {}
}

🛠️ Artisan Commands

Generate boilerplate with style:

# Basic action
php artisan make:action ProcessOrder

# Queueable action
php artisan make:action SendNewsletter --dispatchable

# Invokable action
php artisan make:action CalculateShipping --invokable

# DTO with array conversion
php artisan make:dto OrderData

# Enable Smart Code Completion
php artisan ide-helper:actions

🌟 Real-World Examples

E-commerce Order Processing

// The DTO
class OrderData
{
    use ArrayConvertible;

    public function __construct(
        #[FieldName('customer_email')]
        public string $customerEmail,
        
        #[ArrayOf(OrderItemData::class)]
        public array $items,
        
        #[FieldName('discount_code')]
        public ?string $discountCode = null
    ) {}
}

// The Action
class ProcessOrder
{
    use IsRunnable, IsDispatchable;

    public function handle(OrderData $orderData): Order
    {
        $order = DB::transaction(function () use ($orderData) {
            $order = Order::create([...]);
            
            // Process items
            foreach ($orderData->items as $item) {
                $order->items()->create([...]);
            }
            
            // Apply discount
            if ($orderData->discountCode) {
                ApplyDiscount::run($order, $orderData->discountCode);
            }
            
            return $order;
        });

        // Queue follow-up actions
        SendOrderConfirmation::dispatch($order);
        UpdateInventory::dispatch($order);
        
        return $order;
    }
}

// Usage - It's this simple!
$orderData = OrderData::fromArray($request->validated());
$order = ProcessOrder::run($orderData);

User Registration Flow

class RegisterUser
{
    use IsRunnable;

    public function handle(RegistrationData $data): User
    {
        $user = CreateUser::run($data);
        
        SendWelcomeEmail::dispatch($user);
        NotifyAdmins::dispatch($user);
        TrackRegistration::dispatch($user, $data->referralSource);
        
        return $user;
    }
}

🤲 Contributing

We love contributions! Whether it's a bug fix, new feature, or improvement to our docs - we appreciate it all. Please feel free to submit a pull request or open an issue.

📄 License

Actionable is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

💬 Support & Community

• 🐛 Found a bug? Open an issue
• 💡 Have an idea? Start a discussion
• 🔒 Security concern? Email me at [e-mail]

Built with ❤️ by Lumo Solutions

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