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ambitionworks/model-schema
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Record a schema in a model class, automatically update the database when the schema changes.

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Laravel Model-Schema
====================

[](#laravel-model-schema)

Allows you to define your model's database schema in the model file itself. Field additions, changes, and deletions are automatically detected and applied, after running `php artisan model-schema:migrate`.

Credit
------

[](#credit)

This functionality was 95% lifted from [redbastie/swift](https://github.com/redbastie/swift#automatic-migrations). This stand-alone package changes some terminology and adds some minor additional functionality and tests.

🐉 Here Be Dragons: Indexes
--------------------------

[](#-here-be-dragons-indexes)

> Laravel will automatically generate an index name based on the table, column names, and the index type, but you may pass a second argument to the method to specify the index name yourself

— [Creating Indexes](https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/migrations#creating-indexes)

If you plan on using this package in its current state, **it is best practice to always specify index names**. This is based on a couple of gotchas:

1. This package will generate tables prefixed by `temp_`, which Laravel will then use in the automatically generated index name, which will in-turn throw off the detection of changes to indexes.
2. (On MySQL, at least) Index names are limited to 64 characters, which can be easy to run in to when using the default index name generation, particulary on pivot tables, and further exacerbated by the `temp_` prefix.

A future update to this package may rely on using a parallel database so that prefixes are not required.

###  Health Score

22

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LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity44

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~3 days

Total

2

Last Release

1993d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583308?v=4)[Evan Barter](/maintainers/evanbarter)[@evanbarter](https://github.com/evanbarter)

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Top Contributors

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