opscale-co/nova-comments

Polymorphic comments field for any Laravel Nova Resource — Opscale fork of kirschbaum-development/nova-comments.

1.0.1 2026-06-14 21:48 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.2
• laravel/nova: ^5.4
• opscale-co/nova-package-tools: ^1.1

Requires (Dev)

• larastan/larastan: ^2.10
• laravel/dusk: ^8.2
• laravel/nova-devtool: ^1.0
• mockery/mockery: ^1.6
• orchestra/testbench: ^9.0
• orchestra/testbench-dusk: ^9.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^10.5
• rector/rector: ^1.2
• rector/rector-laravel: ^1.2
• tightenco/duster: ^2.7

MIT

• Opscale

• comments
• nova
• laravel
• polymorphic
• opscale

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opscale-co/nova-comments

A Laravel Nova 5 field that adds polymorphic comments to any Nova Resource. This is the Opscale-maintained fork of kirschbaum-development/nova-comments — same surface area (Commenter ResourceTool, Commentable trait, CommentsPanel, nova_comments table, whenCreating sanitization hook) under Opscale conventions (declare(strict_types=1), PHPStan level 8, Duster, Semantic Release, single-tenant deployment model).

Installation

composer require opscale-co/nova-comments
php artisan migrate

The service provider auto-registers via package discovery. Publish the config if you need to customize it:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=nova-comments-config

Usage

1. Add the Commentable trait to a model

use Opscale\NovaComments\Commentable;

class Post extends Model
{
    use Commentable;
}

2. Add the Commenter field to the model's Nova Resource

use Opscale\NovaComments\Commenter;

public function fields(NovaRequest $request): array
{
    return [
        // ... your other fields ...
        Commenter::make(),
    ];
}

That's it. The comments panel renders on the resource detail page with a Trix rich-text editor (bold, italic, lists, links, etc.). Authenticated Nova users can write comments, paginate older / newer, and submit with the Save button or ⌘+Enter.

Alternative: the relationship panel

Prefer Nova's standard relationship table over the inline panel? Use the CommentsPanel:

use Opscale\NovaComments\CommentsPanel;

public function fields(NovaRequest $request): array
{
    return [
        // ... fields ...
        new CommentsPanel(),
    ];
}

Custom sanitization

By default, comments are stored as the Trix-produced HTML as-is. Trix sanitizes input client-side (no <script>, no inline event handlers), which covers the common case. If you need server-side sanitization — Markdown rendering, an HTML purifier, or just to be paranoid about direct API calls — register a callback in a service provider:

use Opscale\NovaComments\Models\Comment;

public function boot(): void
{
    Comment::whenCreating(function (Comment $comment): void {
        $comment->comment = MyPurifier::clean($comment->comment);
    });
}

Pass null to clear the callback.

Configuration

config/nova-comments.php:

Key	Default	Purpose
commenter.nova-resource	\App\Nova\User::class	Nova resource used for the commenter BelongsTo field
comments-panel.name	null (uses translation)	Heading shown above the panel
limit	100	Max length of the comment preview on the index page

Testing

composer install
vendor/bin/phpunit --exclude-testsuite=Browser

Browser (Dusk) tests run against a workbench Nova app:

npm ci && npm run prod      # build dist/ assets
vendor/bin/phpunit --testsuite=Browser

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.

Credits

• Opscale
• Inspired by kirschbaum-development/nova-comments — © Kirschbaum Development Group LLC

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File.