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stevelacey/laravel-browsable-api
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Browsable API for Laravel, based on Django REST Framework's Browsable API

1.1.0(3y ago)718.9k↑16.7%MITPHPPHP >=7.4

Since May 21Pushed 3y agoCompare

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Laravel Browsable API
=====================

[](#laravel-browsable-api)

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Laravel Browsable API is a package for serving human-friendly HTML output when using a browser, based on [Django REST Framework's Browsable API](http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/browsable-api/)

[![Screenshot](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/289531/40294880-ed9e43c6-5d09-11e8-840c-a4d10d895a87.png)](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/289531/40294880-ed9e43c6-5d09-11e8-840c-a4d10d895a87.png)

The package prepends a middleware to the `api` router group that wraps responses with a basic Bootstrap 4 based HTML template, and linkifies any URLs found

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require stevelacey/laravel-browsable-api
```

Laravel 5.5 uses Package Auto-Discovery, so doesn't require you to manually add the ServiceProvider

If you don't use auto-discovery, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php

```
SteveLacey\LaravelBrowsableApi\ServiceProvider::class,
```

Copy the package config and view into your project with the publish command:

```
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="SteveLacey\LaravelBrowsableApi\ServiceProvider"
```

###  Health Score

36

—

LowBetter than 82% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity30

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

 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 ~165 days

Recently: every ~355 days

Total

10

Last Release

1436d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP >=7.0

1.1.0PHP >=7.4

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/289531?v=4)[Steve Lacey](/maintainers/stevelacey)[@stevelacey](https://github.com/stevelacey)

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Top Contributors

[![stevelacey](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/289531?v=4)](https://github.com/stevelacey "stevelacey (19 commits)")

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