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honed/nav
=========

Create backend driven navigation routes with server-side authorization in Laravel.

v0.22.1(7mo ago)02.9k1MITPHPPHP ^8.2CI passing

Since Feb 2Pushed 3w agoCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/honedlabs/nav)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/honed/nav)[ Docs](https://github.com/honedlabs/nav)[ GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/Honed)[ RSS](/packages/honed-nav/feed)WikiDiscussions main Synced 3w ago

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[   ![](art/header-light.png) ](https://honed.dev/nav)Nav
===

[](#nav)

 [![Build Status](https://github.com/honedlabs/nav/actions/workflows/tests.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/honedlabs/nav/actions) [![Code Coverage](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/honedlabs/nav/main/badge-coverage.svg)](https://github.com/honedlabs/nav) [![Total Downloads](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/646b633155fb679bc8f481a9af490d25ec7861bab294457e78ce0a8808bf7ad0/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f64742f686f6e65642f6e6176)](https://packagist.org/packages/honed/nav) [![Latest Stable Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/2ee4d655ca264616528a0f5677e59c29ab7d33834664a70ea0575f6389946067/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f762f686f6e65642f6e6176)](https://packagist.org/packages/honed/nav)

**Nav** provides a simple way to define and authorize navigation routes in Laravel on your backend, and then share them to your frontend.

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

[](#installation)

> **Requires [PHP 8.3+](https://php.net/releases/)**

> **Requires [Laravel 12+](https://laravel.com/docs/releases).**

> **Requires [Inertia.js 1.2+](https://inertiajs.com/server-side-setup)**

Get started with the package by requiring it in your PHP project using [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/).

```
composer require honed/nav
```

Companion
---------

[](#companion)

> **Requires [Vue.js 3.4+](https://vuejs.org/about/releases.html).**

> **Requires [Inertia.js 1.2+](https://inertiajs.com/client-side-setup)**

Get started with the [companion package](https://github.com/honedlabs/nav-vue) by installing it as a node dependency via [NPM](https://npmjs.com).

```
npm install @honed/nav
```

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

Please refer to the [documentation](https://honed.dev/nav) for the usage of the package.

License
-------

[](#license)

**Nav** was created by [Joshua Wallace](https://joshua-wallace.com) under the [MIT license](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

###  Health Score

44

—

FairBetter than 91% of packages

Maintenance80

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity21

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity52

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 63.2% 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 ~11 days

Recently: every ~28 days

Total

24

Last Release

235d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/87954417?v=4)[Joshua Wallace](/maintainers/jdw5)[@jdw5](https://github.com/jdw5)

---

Top Contributors

[![jdw5](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/87954417?v=4)](https://github.com/jdw5 "jdw5 (148 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (51 commits)")[![github-actions[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/15368?v=4)](https://github.com/github-actions[bot] "github-actions[bot] (35 commits)")

---

Tags

laravelinertianavhoned

###  Code Quality

TestsPest

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StyleLaravel Pint

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