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Maintain beautiful, version-controlled documentation inside your Laravel codebase. Write markdown, commit it next to the code it describes, and Laradocs serves a polished docs site at /docs (or wherever you like).

composer require petebishwhip/laradocs
php artisan laradocs:install

Then open /docs.

Features

📁 Multi-level file structure — nested folders become nested navigation.
🔗 Filename or metadata routing — slug: front-matter overrides paths.
📝 Markdown → HTML powered by CommonMark (GFM, tables, footnotes, …).
🏷️ Rich per-file metadata — title, description, order, hidden, group, badge, redirect, tags, and more.
🎨 Polished default UI — responsive, dark-mode, sidebar, breadcrumbs, on-page table of contents, prev/next — all publishable and overridable.
⚡ Smart caching — rendered HTML cached and auto-invalidated on file change.
🧩 Variables & macros — interpolate {{ values }} and reuse @docs() blocks, with a service-provider API to register your own.
🖼️ Rich content — callouts (> [!NOTE]), syntax-highlighted code with a copy button, lazy images with captions, and local/YouTube/Vimeo video embeds.
✅ Fully tested — Pest + Testbench, 100% coverage gate, PHPStan max, Pint.

Quick start

Create a page:

php artisan make:doc guide/getting-started --title="Getting Started" --order=1

---
title: Getting Started
description: Install and configure the app.
order: 1
group: Basics
---

# Getting Started

> [!TIP]
> Folders become sidebar sections; `_index.md` is a section's landing page.

Configuration

Everything is configurable in config/laradocs.php and via environment variables — route prefix/domain, docs path, routing strategy, theme, caching and more. See the Configuration docs.

LARADOCS_ROUTE_PREFIX=docs
LARADOCS_THEME=auto
LARADOCS_ENABLED=true

The Laradocs facade

use Laradocs\Facades\Laradocs;

Laradocs::variables(fn () => ['version' => '1.0.0']);
Laradocs::share('app_name', config('app.name'));
Laradocs::macro('tweet', fn (array $args) => "<a href=\"...\">@{$args['user']}</a>");

Artisan commands

Command	Description
`laradocs:install`	Publish config and scaffold a starter page
`make:doc {name}`	Scaffold a new markdown page with front-matter
`laradocs:cache`	Pre-render and cache every page
`laradocs:clear`	Clear the documentation cache

Publishing

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laradocs-config
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laradocs-views
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laradocs-assets

Testing

composer test

Documentation

The full docs live at laradocs.dev/docs — and are themselves built with Laradocs. Highlights:

The source for those pages lives in docs/; browse there or serve a local copy with composer serve.

Contributing & Security

See CONTRIBUTING.md and SECURITY.md.

License

The MIT License (MIT). See LICENSE.md.

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