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bastian/fractal-magic
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A nice wrapper for the league's fractal package.

0.2(12y ago)4121PHP

Since Feb 27Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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Fractal Wrapper
===============

[](#fractal-wrapper)

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This package puts a nice wrapper around the fractal package: . It handles the nitty gritty task of spinning up the manager, creating a resource and provides a convient location to register your transformers.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Add this to your `composer.json` require:

```
"bastian/fractal-magic": "dev-master"

```

and run `composer update`.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
$fractal = new Hofmann\FractalMagic\Fractal([
  'posts' => new ResourceTransformer
]);

// Singular for a fractal item

$fractal->post(['title' => 'Hello']);

// Plural for a fractal collection

$fractal->posts([
  ['title' => 'Hi!']
]);
```

Notice that you only have to set the singular resource binding. This will return a Symfony response with the data in place, which you can return from your controller or route closure.

Laravel Usage
-------------

[](#laravel-usage)

For usage in laravel I suggest you register a `Response::macro` like this:

```
Response::macro('fractal', function()
{
  return new Hofmann\FractalMagic\Fractal([
    'resource' => new ResourceTransformer
  ]);
});
```

Now you can use this in your controller:

```
class SomeController {

  public function index()
  {
    return Response::fractal()->resources($data);
  }

}
```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity56

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 91.7% 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 ~1 days

Total

2

Last Release

4454d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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