Fabric is a command-line utility to quickly scaffold PHP and Laravel packages. This tool is still in early stages, any bugs can be reported as Github Issues.
It's recommended to install Fabric globally on your machine so you can run fabric commands where-ever you are in your terminal.
composer global require steadfastcollective/fabric
You'll also want to ensure that ~/.composer/vendor/bin is in your terminal's path.
Fabric provides seperate commands for each type of package that can be bootstrapped. One for php, one for laravel and one for statamic. You can specify when you run the command, like so: fabric php
When running a Fabric command, you'll also need to tell it the name of the Composer package you want to bootstrap. For example: fabric php steadfastcollective/package-name, where steadfastcollective is the Packagist vendor and package-name is the name of your package.
You can optionally provide a set of parameters which will be used to tell Fabric about any specific things you'd like to be bootstrapped, like Tests or a Facade. The list of parameters is documented for each package type. If you don't provide any parameters, you'll be presented with a yes/no wizard instead.
cd ~/Code
fabric php steadfastcollective/vesta-php --tests
Parameters
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| --tests | Scaffolds out a basic testing setup, with PHPUnit. |
cd ~/Code
fabric laravel steadfastcollective/cashier-extended --tests --facade --config
Parameters
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| --tests | Scaffolds out a basic testing setup, with PHPUnit. |
| --facade | Creates a Facade for your package. |
| --config | Creates a configuration file and hooks it up in your service provider. |
| --views | Creates an empty views directory and hooks it up in your service provider. |
| --lang | Creates an empty lang directory and hooks it up in your service provider. |
| --routes | Creates an empty routes file and hooks it up in your service provider. |
| --migrations | Creates an empty migrations directory and hooks it up in your service provider. |
Fabric doesn't currently provide the ability to provide everything you might need (fieldtypes, filters, widgets, etc). In those cases, it may be a good idea to create the addon with Fabric and then create the types using Statamic's
pleasecommand line tool.
cd ~/Code
fabric statamic steadfastcollective/twitter-sharing-tool --tests --config --action
Parameters
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| --tests | Scaffolds out a basic testing setup, with PHPUnit. |
| --config | Creates a configuration file and hooks it up in your service provider. |
| --views | Creates an empty views directory and hooks it up in your service provider. |
| --lang | Creates an empty lang directory and hooks it up in your service provider. |
| --routes | Creates an empty routes file and hooks it up in your service provider. |
| --modifier | Creates a modifier class and hooks it up in your service provider. |
| --action | Creates an action class and hooks it up in your service provider. |
If you're wanting to work on Fabric (the tool) locally, there's a few steps to getting it setup:
- Clone this repository:
git clone git@github.com:steadfast-collective/fabric.git - Change directory into
fabric - Install Composer dependencies
composer install
After the above steps, you'll be able to run Fabric commands with php fabric. This will also allow you to run two versions of Fabric, the production one which is globally installed with Composer and the development version, cloned to your machine.