Creator Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Accelerating boilerplate development for Clean Architecture projects in PHP/Laravel, reducing manual scaffolding time by 30-50% for domain layers, entities, and repositories.
• Enabling rapid prototyping of new features by auto-generating CRUD-like structures (e.g., User, Order, Product entities with validation, UUIDs, and Doctrine ORM mappings).
• Standardizing codebase structure across teams by enforcing Clean Architecture patterns (e.g., separation of Domain, Application, and Infrastructure layers) via CLI commands.
• Reducing technical debt in greenfield projects by automating repetitive setup (e.g., Doctrine entities, Symfony Messenger messages, or Symfony Validator constraints).
• Supporting "build vs. buy" tradeoffs for internal tools where custom scaffolding is preferred over off-the-shelf solutions like Laravel Nova or Filament.
• Roadmap alignment for teams adopting Clean Architecture or DDD, where this package bridges the gap between theory and implementation.

When to Consider This Package

• Avoid if:
  • Your team already uses a mature scaffolding tool (e.g., Laravel Breeze, Jetstream, or Filament) that covers your needs.
  • You require UI generation (this package is backend-focused; pair with Livewire/Inertia/Vue for frontend).
  • Your project uses non-Doctrine ORMs (e.g., Eloquent-only) or non-Symfony components (e.g., custom validation).
  • You need multi-language support (this is PHP-only).
  • The package’s lack of stars/documentation raises concerns about long-term maintenance (mitigate with internal testing).
• Consider if:
  • You’re building a Clean Architecture/DDD project from scratch and want to avoid reinventing scaffolding wheels.
  • Your team prioritizes developer velocity over customization (e.g., startups, MVPs).
  • You need UUID support, Symfony Messenger integration, or advanced Doctrine features out of the box.
  • You’re comfortable extending a lightweight CLI tool (Symfony Console-based) to fit your workflow.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For Executives:

"This package lets our backend team generate boilerplate code for domain models, repositories, and services in minutes—not days—using Clean Architecture best practices. For example, creating a User entity with validation, UUIDs, and Doctrine mappings takes one CLI command instead of manual setup. This directly reduces onboarding time for new hires and speeds up feature delivery for projects like [X Initiative]. The MIT license means no vendor lock-in, and the Symfony/Doctrine integration aligns with our tech stack. We’d pilot it on [Project Y] to measure time savings before wider adoption."

For Engineering:

*"The akimmaksimov85/creator package automates the tedious parts of setting up Clean Architecture layers (Domain/Application/Infrastructure) with Symfony and Doctrine. Key benefits:

• CLI commands to generate entities, repositories, and services (e.g., php creator:entity User).
• Built-in support for UUIDs, Symfony Messenger, and Validator constraints—no manual config.
• Lightweight (~5MB) and extensible (we can customize templates or add commands).
• Risk: Minimal (MIT license, Symfony-based, but untested at scale—we’d validate with [specific use case]).

Proposal: Use it for [Project Z]’s domain layer to compare dev time vs. manual coding. If it saves >20% time, we can expand its role in our scaffolding toolkit."*