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web-chefs/laravel-app-spawn
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Laravel custom application instance bootstrap creator. Used predominantly for doing Laravel specific testing.

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LaraAppSpawn
============

[](#laraappspawn)

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Laravel Custom Application Spawner is primarily used for creating a Application instance in a unit testing environment, allowing you to interact with Laravel in your tests.

By default it will use a SQLite in memory database, allowing you to run migrations and use a fully functional database during your tests.

It is up to you to migration and seed this test database.

Install
-------

[](#install)

**Via Composer**

```
$ composer require web-chefs/laravel-app-spawn --dev
```

Basic usage example
-------------------

[](#basic-usage-example)

```
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\TestCase;
use WebChefs\LaraAppSpawn\ApplicationResolver;

class MyTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * Creates the application.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Foundation\Application
     */
    public function createApplication()
    {
        // Root of my app, used as a fallback for location of /database when
        // database.path in config is null.
        $appRoutePath = __DIR__;

        // Resolve Application
        $resolver  = ApplicationResolver::makeApp($appRoutePath);
        $this->app = $resolver->app();

        // Run our database migrations if required
        $this->artisan('migrate:refresh', [ '--force' => 1 ]);

        return $this->app;
    }

}
```

Example with custom configs
---------------------------

[](#example-with-custom-configs)

```
use Illuminate\Support\Arr;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\TestCase;
use WebChefs\LaraAppSpawn\ApplicationResolver;

class MyTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * Creates the application.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Foundation\Application
     */
    public function createApplication()
    {
        // Root of my app, used as a fallback for location of /database when
        // database.path in config is null.
        $appRoutePath = __DIR__;

        // Build Resolver config
        $config = ApplicationResolver::defaultConfig();
        Arr::set($config, 'database.connection', $this->connectionName);
        Arr::set($config, 'queue.connection', $this->connectionName);

        // Resolve Application
        $resolver  = ApplicationResolver::makeApp($appRoutePath, $config);
        $this->app = $resolver->app();

        // Run our database migrations if required
        $this->artisan('migrate:refresh', [ '--force' => 1 ]);

        return $this->app;
    }

}
```

TravisCI
--------

[](#travisci)

This was originally developed for `WebChefs\QueueButler` and for testing multiple version of Laravel using the same tests.

To see how that is possible see WebChefs\\QueueButler [.travis.yml](https://github.com/web-chefs/QueueButler/blob/master/.travis.yml).

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

All code submissions will only be evaluated and accepted as pull-requests. If you have any questions or find any bugs please feel free to open an issue.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [All Contributors](../../contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE) for more information.

###  Health Score

35

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity73

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 ~200 days

Recently: every ~301 days

Total

7

Last Release

1746d ago

PHP version history (3 changes)1.0PHP ~5.6|~7.0

1.5PHP ~7.0

1.6PHP ^7.0|^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

configurationenvlaravelloggingphptestingtestlaravelloggingdatabasedebugging

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