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lazerg/laravel-response-helpers
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Response helpers for laravel

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Laravel API Response Helpers
============================

[](#laravel-api-response-helpers)

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Helpers to send API responses in same structured format. Response is always includes message and data.

```
{
    "message": "Successfully updated",
    "data": {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "John Doe",
        "email": "johndoe@example.com"
    }
}
```

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

[](#installation)

Simply require the package via composer into your Laravel API.

```
composer require lazerg/laravel-response-helpers

```

After that require the trait `\Lazerg\LaravelResponseHelpers\ResponseHelpers` inside of your main controller `app/Http/Controllers/Controller.php`;

Usage without resourceful response.
-----------------------------------

[](#usage-without-resourceful-response)

```
    # Response with success message
    $this->responseMessage('Successfully updated');

    # Response with error message
    $this->responseMessage('Failed to update', 400);

    # Successful response with data
    $this->responseData($user);

    # Error response with data
    $this->responseData($user, 400);

    # Response with success message and data
    $this->response('Successfully updated', $user);

    # Response with error message and data
    $this->response('Failed to update', $user, 400);
```

Usage with resourceful response
-------------------------------

[](#usage-with-resourceful-response)

```
    # Success response with resourceful data
    $this->responseResourceful(UsersResource::class, $users);

    # Error response with resourceful data
    $this->responseResourceful(UsersResource::class, $users, 400);

    # Success response with resourceful message and data
    $this->responseJsonResourceful(UsersResource::class, $users, 'Successfully updated');

    # Error response with resourceful message and data
    $this->responseJsonResourceful(UsersResource::class, $users, , 'Failed to update', 400);
```

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

```
$this->getJson(route('users.index'))
    ->assertOk()
    ->assertJsonCountData(5)

    # amount of $users->first()->posts
    ->assertJsonCountData(2, '0.posts')
    ->assertJsonStructureData([
        ['id', 'name', 'email']
    ]);
    ->assertJsonData([
        'id' => 1,
        'name' => 'John Doe',
        'email' => 'johndoe@example.com'
    ]);
```

Response example
----------------

[](#response-example)

### Data without resourceful response

[](#data-without-resourceful-response)

[![hello](./examples/data_without_resource_code.png)](./examples/data_without_resource_code.png)[![hello](./examples/data_without_resource.png)](./examples/data_without_resource.png)

### Pagination without resourceful response

[](#pagination-without-resourceful-response)

[![hello](./examples/pagination_without_resource_code.png)](./examples/pagination_without_resource_code.png)[![hello](./examples/pagination_without_resource.png)](./examples/pagination_without_resource.png)

### Data with resource response

[](#data-with-resource-response)

[![hello](./examples/data_with_resource_code.png)](./examples/data_with_resource_code.png)[![hello](./examples/data_with_resource.png)](./examples/data_with_resource.png)

### Pagination with resource response

[](#pagination-with-resource-response)

[![hello](./examples/pagination_with_resource_code.png)](./examples/pagination_with_resource_code.png)[![hello](./examples/pagination_with_resource.png)](./examples/pagination_with_resource.png)

###  Health Score

45

—

FairBetter than 92% of packages

Maintenance56

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity75

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 76.2% 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 ~107 days

Recently: every ~277 days

Total

14

Last Release

288d ago

Major Versions

0.20 → v1.0.02022-02-18

v1.1.4 → v2.0.02023-06-06

v2.1.0 → v12.0.02025-07-30

PHP version history (3 changes)v0.02PHP ^8.0|^7.3

v2.1.0PHP ^7.3|^8.0|^8.1|^8.2|^8.3

v12.0.0PHP ^7.3|^8.0|^8.1|^8.2|^8.3|^8.4

### Community

Maintainers

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