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Create new web projects really fast. By giving Pipe Dream a minimum of input in form of a sketch/entity list it will predict your application schema and feed it into a set of pipes. These pipes will generate all the files needed to get started really quick.

Installation

composer require --dev pipe-dream/laravel

Thats it, now open your browser and go to /pipe-dream and start designing.

Usage

If you havent already, watch the 2 minute video.

• List your models and tables in the sketch window. Note the schema is created in real-time and is being displayed on the right side of the screen.

• Here are some pointers on the sketch syntax

// use PascalCase for models
Garage
location
capacity

// Separate your entities into chunks
Car
color
user_id // foreign key

// use snake_case model1_model2 to setup a ManyToMany relationship
car_garage 

// use button to add a default user system
User 
name
email
email_verified_at
password
remember_token

// use snake_case to create a table
password_resets
email
token

• Review the list of files that are going to be created.

• Commit the files to disk.

• You are now ready to migrate and seed. Go ahead and check out the API (at /api), that contains placeholder values

Development roadmap

This package is still very much in development. Below is a rough plan for the future.

Alpha ( < v0.1.0 )

• The main goal of the alpha is to act as a proof of concept specifically for Laravel applications.
• Bug fixes will continiue until the alpha is stable.
• New features will be added only if the work required is reasonable.
• Complex new features or non critical bug fixes might be postponed to the Beta version.

Beta ( v0.1.0 )

• Most of the Javascript will be extracted to its own repository ( pipe-dream/core ) in order to easily enable support for multiple FileFactories in separate repos (Maybe ExpressFileFactory, DjangoFileFactory or others). This repo (pipe-dream/laravel) will then extend that core with logic, rules, data etc specific only for Laravel.
• Backend and frontend interfaces/API specifications are supplied to make it clear what other implementations need to conform to.

Version 1 ( v1.0.0 )

• When the beta is stable we will bump it up to v1.0.0

Help us out

Help us out by simply trying this package. Feel free to post issues if you have a question, find a bug, have some idea for improvement or if you just want to share your experience. PRs are more than welcome, you dont need to be a pro. Start by looking at this Trello board listing all the stuff that needs to get done.

License

MIT

Stay tuned!

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