Laravel CRUD Generator

A Laravel package to quickly scaffold API or Web-based CRUD operations using a simple Artisan command. It generates Models, Migrations, Form Requests, API Resources, Controllers, and even Blade views — with full support for validation, foreign keys, nullable fields, and default values.

Installation

To install the package, run:

composer require mr.incognito/crudify

✨ Features

• ✅ Generates Model, Migration, Controller, Request, and Resource
• ✅ Supports Web (with Blade views) or API type generation
• ✅ Handles nullable fields (using ~ as a suffix)
• ✅ Supports foreign key constraints
• ✅ Adds default values to migration fields
• ✅ Type-aware validation rules (e.g., string, integer, boolean)
• ✅ Artisan-based generation: fast and developer-friendly
• ✅ --type flag to specific crud type api or web based (with default is api)
• ✅ --exclude flag to skip generating specific files
• ✅ 🆕 delete:crud command to remove all generated files at once
• ✅ Built-in Pest tests
• ✅ Code refactoring via Rector

🚀 Usage

php artisan make:crud ModelName --fields="field:type|rule1|rule2;another:foreign~|constrained:table" --type=api|web --exclude=model,..

Example 1: Basic CRUD without foreign key

php artisan make:crud Department --fields="name:string|max:255;created_by:foreign~|constrained:users"

Example 2: Required foreign key with constraint and cascade

php artisan make:crud Department --fields="name:string;created_by:foreign|constrained:users|onDelete:cascade"

Example 3: Nullable foreign key column

php artisan make:crud Department --fields="name:string;created_by:foreign~|constrained:hospitals"

Example 4: Field with default value

php artisan make:crud Department --fields="name:string;status:boolean~|default:true"

These all will Generate

• app/Models/Department.php
• app/Http/Controllers/DepartmentController.php
• app/Http/Requests/DepartmentRequest.php
• app/Http/Resources/DepartmentResource.php
• database/migrations/xxxx_xx_xx_create_departments_table.php
• Adds route in routes/api.php

Example 5: Web CRUD with Blade Views

php artisan make:crud Article --fields="title:string;content:text" --type=web

Generates:

• Model, Migration
• Blade Views: resources/views/articles/*.blade.php
• Web\ArticleController
• Route in web.php

Example 6: Web CRUD excluding migration and model

php artisan make:crud Article --fields="title:string;content:text" --type=web --exclude=migration,model

Generates only:

• Blade Views: resources/views/articles/*.blade.php
• Web\ArticleController
• Route in web.php

Example 7: Exclude Model and Migration (API)

php artisan make:crud Department --fields="name:string" --type=api --exclude=model,migration

Skips model and migration, still creates controller, request, and resource.

🗑️ Deleting Generated CRUD

Use delete:crud to remove all files generated by make:crud for a given resource in one command. It is the exact reverse of make:crud.

php artisan delete:crud ModelName --type=api|web --exclude=model,.. --force

Basic delete (defaults to API type)

php artisan delete:crud Hospital

Specify type

# Delete API CRUD files
php artisan delete:crud Hospital --type=api

# Delete Web CRUD files
php artisan delete:crud Hospital --type=web

Skip confirmation prompt

php artisan delete:crud Hospital --force

Exclude specific components from deletion

Keep certain files while deleting the rest — useful when you want to preserve your model or migration history.

# Keep the model
php artisan delete:crud Hospital --exclude=model

# Keep the migration (recommended to preserve DB history)
php artisan delete:crud Hospital --exclude=migration

# Keep both model and migration
php artisan delete:crud Hospital --exclude=model,migration

# Keep the route entry
php artisan delete:crud Hospital --exclude=route

# Keep controller and resource
php artisan delete:crud Hospital --exclude=controller,resource

Combine options

# Delete web CRUD, skip prompt, keep migration
php artisan delete:crud Hospital --type=web --exclude=migration --force

# Delete api CRUD, keep model and migration, no prompt
php artisan delete:crud Hospital --type=api --exclude=model,migration --force

What gets deleted

Interactive confirmation

When run without --force, the command shows a preview and asks for confirmation before deleting anything:

The following files will be deleted for <Hospital> (api):
  ✗ [model]      app/Models/Hospital.php
  ✗ [request]    app/Http/Requests/HospitalRequest.php
  ✗ [migration]  database/migrations/2024_01_01_000000_create_hospitals_table.php
  ✗ [controller] app/Http/Controllers/Api/HospitalController.php
  ✗ [resource]   app/Http/Resources/HospitalResource.php

 Are you sure you want to delete these files? (yes/no) [no]:
 > yes

Deleted:
  ✓ [model]      app/Models/Hospital.php
  ✓ [request]    app/Http/Requests/HospitalRequest.php
  ✓ [migration]  database/migrations/2024_01_01_000000_create_hospitals_table.php
  ✓ [controller] app/Http/Controllers/Api/HospitalController.php
  ✓ [resource]   app/Http/Resources/HospitalResource.php
  ✓ [route]      removed route entry from routes/api.php

API CRUD for Hospital deleted successfully.

If a file was not found it is reported as skipped rather than throwing an error:

Not found (skipped):
  ? [migration]  database/migrations/*_create_hospitals_table.php

Field Syntax

Each field uses the format:

column_name:data_type[~]|rules|default:xyz;next_column:foreignId[~]|constrained:table

Supported Field Types

You can use any of the following Laravel migration column types:

string, text, boolean, integer, decimal, date, uuid, json, timestamp, etc.

• Foreign key via foreign, e.g., user_id:foreign~|constrained:users
• Nullable fields: suffix type with ~, e.g., email:string~
• Default values: default:value, e.g., status:boolean|default:true

Column Modifiers

🆕 New in v2

🎯 --type=api — generates API controller and resource only

🎯 --type=web — generates web controller and Blade views

✂️ --exclude=model,migration,... — skip generating specific components

🗑️ delete:crud — reverse any make:crud with a single command

⚠️ Default Behavior

If --type is not specified, the command defaults to type=api.

php artisan make:crud Book --fields="title:string;author:string"

This is equivalent to:

php artisan make:crud Book --fields="title:string;author:string" --type=api

By default, it generates API-related files:

• API Controller
• API Resource
• Form Request
• Model
• Migration
• Adds route to api.php

Testing

This package uses Pest for testing:

composer test

Refactoring

This package uses Rector for automated code refactoring and PHP/Laravel upgrades:

composer rector

🛠 Dev Requirements

• PHP ^8.1
• Laravel ^10 or ^11 or ^12 or ^13
• PestPHP for testing
• Laravel Pint for code style

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

🧑 Author

Sandeep Pant

📧 sandeeppant024@gmail.com

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT License.