Laravel 5.3 Vendor Package Example

An example on how-to create a vendor package for Composer

"Packages are the primary way of adding functionality to Laravel. Packages might be anything from a great way to work with dates like Carbon, or an entire BDD testing framework like Behat." https://laravel.com/docs/master/packages

Use this package to help develop new packages to share among your projects -- or the world.

Installation

1. Clone this repo.
2. Rename the following to match your repository & package name:
   • namespace: Askedio\LaravelVendorPackage
   • composer package name: askedio/laravel-vendor-package
   • resource namespace: LaravelVendorPackage
3. Add to https://packagist.org.
4. Using your details, install with commands below.

Installation

Install a fresh copy of Laravel then require the package:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog
cd blog
composer require askedio/laravel-vendor-package:dev-master

Register with config/app.php

Register the service providers to enable the package:

Askedio\LaravelVendorPackage\Providers\AppServiceProvider::class,

Autoload it:

composer dumpautoload

Test with Laravel

php artisan serv

Browse to http://localhost:8000/dashboard

Test the Package

In the packages repository folder:

composer install
vendor/bin/phpunit