README

This project generates a documentation for your routes of a laravel project, generates a html file with the description for each route, description include:

• Method
• Uri
• Name
• Controller
• Middleware

All this with a simple artisan command.

Installation

This package can be installed with composer with the next command:

composer require gussrw/laravel-routes

Generate HTML file

You can generate the html file from console with the next artisan command.

php artisan route:docs

This command create a html file in Project/docs.

Route description

Description are optional, but if you want to add them create a php comment over the each route in the web.php file with @description.

/**
 * @description Show the home page of the site
 */
Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index') -> name('home.index');

Resources routes

The descriptions in the resource type routes are identified by their method in the controller.

/**
 * @index Show the main view
 * @create Show the view to create a photo
 * @store Save a photo in database
 * @edit Show the view to edit a photo
 * @update Update photo data in database
 * @destroy Delete a photo in database
 */
Route::resource('photos', 'PhotoController');

Params

Routes params are defined with @param name Description, you can use @param in resource type routes.

/**
 * @description Download photo with the photo id.
 * @param id ID of the photo in database
 */
Route::get('/photo/{id}/download', 'PhotoController@download');

Options

Lang

To show the documentation in another language, you can use option --lang , default is en

php artisan route:docs --lang=es

Languages ​​currently available:

• en set to english
• es set to spanish

Path

To indicate the html file path, you can use option --path , default is /docs

php artisan route:docs --path=/routes/docs

Commented

To show only the routes that have a comment, you can use the option --commented , default is false

php artisan route:docs --commented=true

Sort By

To sort the routes by some property, you can use the option --sortby ,default is uri

php artisan route:docs --sortby=name

Properties available to order:

• method
• uri
• name
• action
• middleware
• comment