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krdesigns/tinker
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BotMan tinker command for your Laravel BotMan project

1.0.5(6y ago)0291MITPHPPHP ^7.2

Since Apr 3Pushed 6y agoCompare

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BotMan Tinker
=============

[](#botman-tinker)

Gives your Laravel chatbot the ability to try your chatbot in your local terminal.

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

[](#installation)

Run `composer require botman/tinker` to install the composer dependencies.

Then in your `config/app.php` add

```
BotMan\Tinker\TinkerServiceProvider::class,
```

to the `providers` array.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

You now have a new Artisan command that helps you to test and develop your chatbot locally:

```
php artisan botman:tinker
```

License
-------

[](#license)

BotMan and Tinker is free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 79.2% 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 ~120 days

Recently: every ~187 days

Total

9

Last Release

2372d ago

Major Versions

0.2.0 → 1.0.02017-08-28

PHP version history (2 changes)0.1.0PHP >=5.6.0

1.0.5PHP ^7.2

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1783b7dfe55f81bb20b82895da7dde2cc7e50b1858766f8841386a4f468e00bc?d=identicon)[ranrinc](/maintainers/ranrinc)

---

Top Contributors

[![mpociot](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/804684?v=4)](https://github.com/mpociot "mpociot (19 commits)")[![CrushedLive](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1410921?v=4)](https://github.com/CrushedLive "CrushedLive (1 commits)")[![marktopper](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2232539?v=4)](https://github.com/marktopper "marktopper (1 commits)")[![martinmuntzing](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/839852?v=4)](https://github.com/martinmuntzing "martinmuntzing (1 commits)")[![robinvdvleuten](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/238295?v=4)](https://github.com/robinvdvleuten "robinvdvleuten (1 commits)")[![roquie](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3214290?v=4)](https://github.com/roquie "roquie (1 commits)")

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Tags

laravelTinkerbotBotman

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