garavel

Interactive Laravel project scaffolder. Creates the app, wires the database into .env, and installs the packages you actually use.

npx garavel

No global install, no Yeoman. Requires Node >= 20, plus php and composer on your PATH.

What it asks

• Project name — the directory to create
• Laravel version — fetched live from Packagist, so the list never goes stale
• Database — SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB, or PostgreSQL; the name you give is written into .env
• API authentication — Sanctum, Passport, JWT, or none
• Spatie packages — permission, medialibrary, activitylog, settings, backup, query-builder, data
• Dev tooling — debugbar, ide-helper, larastan, Pest, Sail

Anything with a service provider gets its vendor:publish run automatically. On Laravel 11+, Sanctum and Passport go through php artisan install:api.

Upgrading from generator-garavel

generator-garavel was a Yeoman generator and is deprecated. This replaces it:

npm rm -g yo generator-garavel
npx garavel

Behaviour that changed:

• The database name you type is now actually written to .env — the old generator prompted for it and dropped it.
• vendor:publish now works. The old version passed PHP namespaces through a JS string that ate the backslashes, so every publish silently did nothing.
• Laravel version choices come from Packagist instead of a hardcoded 5.5/5.6 list.

Development

npm test

License

MIT © Abdullah Ghanem