Simplifying Service Providers With Laravel Package Tools

 Laravel Package Tools is a package by Spatie that provides an opinionated base service provider you can use to streamline the registration of your package’s config files, migrations, commands, and more.

Here’s how to simplify service providers in @laravelphp packageshttps://t.co/qKmIO7nUJY

Spoiler: I released a package for that https://t.co/URH2udPbiJ#php #laravel pic.twitter.com/tWCGuE8HG8

— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) January 25, 2021

I think you’ll agree that this package can streamline common use-cases found in package service providers:

 1use Spatie\LaravelPackageTools\PackageServiceProvider;
 2use Spatie\LaravelPackageTools\Package;
 3 
 4class YourPackageServiceProvider extends PackageServiceProvider
 5{
 6    public function configurePackage(Package $package) : void
 7    {
 8        $package
 9            ->name('your-package-name')
10            ->hasConfigFile()
11            ->hasViews()
12            ->hasTranslations()
13            ->hasMigration('create_package_tables')
14            ->hasCommand(YourCoolPackageCommand::class);
15    }
16}

Spatie also provides a skeleton Laravel package you can use as a template for your next package project. The Laravel skeleton uses the package tools service provider out of the box.