🧠 Laravel Ninja - VS Code Extension

Laravel Ninja is a powerful VS Code extension built to supercharge your Laravel development workflow. From real-time route previews to Livewire support, Blade IntelliSense, and rich JSON logging – it's your all-in-one Laravel developer assistant.

🚀 Features

🔍 Route Preview (WebView)

• View all Laravel routes via php artisan route:list --json
• Dynamic filter + column sorting (Method, URI, Name, Action)
• Color-coded method badges (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.)
• Dark/Light theme adaptive UI
• Clickable controller links to open class and auto-jump to method
• Route test buttons (opens in browser)
• Multi-method (GET|HEAD) coloring support

🛠 Route-to-Controller Navigation

• Smart detection of controller paths
• Works with:
  • app/Http/Controllers
  • Modules/...
  • src/...
  • Custom PSR-4-style structures
• Jumps to exact method in controller (if found)

🧪 Test Endpoint Preview

• "Test" button for each route opens in browser using base URL (configurable via laravelNinja.appUrl)

🌈 Log Viewer (CoolorsLog Style)

• Parses storage/logs/*.log
• Auto-refresh toggle
• Search/filter bar
• Auto JSON rendering (pretty format for JSON payloads)
• Collapsible grouped logs (e.g., by timestamp/request ID)
• Supports highlighting timestamps

🔦 Blade File IntelliSense

• Blade syntax highlighting (via internal grammar injection)
• Go to Blade Components (with @component and @include support)
• Livewire component detection and navigation
• Blade formatter with Auto Format on Save support

🔁 Workspace Module Tabs

• Workspace-aware sidebar that detects Laravel modules
• Shows custom folder icons using your installed VS Code icon theme (e.g., Material Icons)

🧩 Components Viewer

• Search-all-components panel
• Live preview of Blade components with props

⚡️ Laravel Tinker Terminal (coming soon)

• Interactive shell inside VS Code terminal with Laravel context

✂️ Laravel Snippet Engine

• Popular snippets:
  • @foreach, @if, @include, @livewire
  • Route, controller, migration, event generators

⚙️ Configuration

Update your .vscode/settings.json or global settings:

"laravelNinja.appUrl": "http://your-local-url.test"

📦 Commands

• Laravel: Route Preview — Opens the interactive route browser
• Laravel: Log Viewer — Opens JSON-enhanced log viewer
• Laravel: Blade GoTo — Jump to Blade components
• Laravel: Format Blade — Formats current Blade file
• Laravel: Component Preview — Opens Blade component viewer
• Laravel: Workspace Explorer — Shows Laravel module structure

💡 Future Enhancements

• Tinker shell support
• Built-in API request tester with header/body control
• Database table explorer
• Livewire prop hover + intellisense
• Laravel Forge/Envoyer integrations

🧠 Contribution

We welcome PRs for:

• Custom middleware visualization
• Laravel Nova/Filament-specific support
• Laravel Telescope & Horizon integrations

📸 Screenshots

Will be added soon

🧪 Requirements

• PHP >= 8.0
• Laravel >= 8.x
• VS Code >= 1.65

🔗 License

MIT — Free to use and extend.

👤 Author

Ashik

☕ Support

If this extension helps you, consider buying me a coffee: