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laravel-dao-generator maintained by danielmabadeje

Description
Scaffold Service -> DAO -> RepositoryInterface -> EloquentRepository -> Model architecture for Laravel with a single artisan command.
Author
Daniel Mabadeje
Last update
2026/06/15 05:23 (dev-main)
License
MIT
Links
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Tags
generator - repository - service - scaffold - laravel - dao - artisan

dev-main

Last update
2026/06/15 05:23
License
MIT
Require
  • php ^8.1
  • illuminate/support ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0
  • illuminate/console ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0
  • illuminate/database ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0
v1.0.0

Last update
2026/06/15 05:14
License
MIT
Require
  • php ^8.1
  • illuminate/support ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0
  • illuminate/console ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0
  • illuminate/database ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0
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Laravel DAO Generator

Scaffold the Service -> DAO -> RepositoryInterface -> EloquentRepository -> Model architecture with a single artisan command — and optionally generate a DTO layer too.

Installation

composer require danielmabadeje/laravel-dao-generator --dev

The package auto-registers via Laravel's package discovery.

Usage

php artisan make:dao Product

This generates:

app/
├── DataTransferObjects/ProductData.php
├── Repositories/
│   ├── Contracts/ProductRepositoryInterface.php
│   └── Eloquent/EloquentProductRepository.php
├── DAOs/ProductDAO.php
├── Services/ProductService.php
└── Providers/RepositoryServiceProvider.php   (created on first run)

It also:

  • Binds ProductRepositoryInterface -> EloquentProductRepository inside RepositoryServiceProvider.
  • Registers RepositoryServiceProvider in bootstrap/providers.php (Laravel 11+) if not already present.
  • Is idempotent — running it again won't duplicate bindings or overwrite existing files (unless --force).

Options

Option Description
--model Also generate the Eloquent model via make:model.
--dto Force DTO generation, overriding use_dtos config.
--no-dto Skip DTO generation, overriding use_dtos config.
--force Overwrite existing files.

Nested models

php artisan make:dao Blog/Post

Generates everything under the Blog sub-namespace, e.g. App\DAOs\Blog\PostDAO.

Layer responsibilities

  • EloquentRepository — pure Eloquent queries (find, paginate, create, update, delete). No business logic.
  • DAO — orchestrates repository calls, wraps DB transactions, maps Models <-> DTOs.
  • Service — business logic, validation orchestration, events. Controllers depend on this.
  • DTO (optional) — immutable data object returned to controllers instead of raw Models.

Configuration

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=dao-generator-config

Adjust namespaces, paths, naming conventions (prefixes/suffixes per layer), and toggle use_dtos globally in config/dao-generator.php.

Customizing stubs

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=dao-generator-stubs

Published to stubs/dao/. Edit these to match your team's code style — the generator prefers published stubs over its built-in defaults.

License

MIT