Laravel Make Action

A Laravel package that adds a make:action Artisan command to generate Action classes following the single responsibility principle.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1+
• Laravel 10, 11 or 12

Installation

composer require ibaiicb/laravel-make-action

The package registers itself automatically via Laravel's package discovery.

Usage

Basic action

php artisan make:action SendWelcomeEmail

Generates app/Actions/SendWelcomeEmail.php:

<?php

namespace App\Actions;

class SendWelcomeEmail
{
    public function handle(): void
    {
        //
    }
}

Invokable action (--invokable / -i)

php artisan make:action SendWelcomeEmail --invokable

Generates a class with __invoke() instead of handle().

Queued action (--queued / -q)

php artisan make:action SendWelcomeEmail --queued

Generates a class implementing ShouldQueue with all the required queue traits.

With an accompanying test (--test)

php artisan make:action SendWelcomeEmail --test

Generates the action and a Pest test at tests/Feature/Actions/SendWelcomeEmailTest.php.

Nested namespaces

Use / as separator to generate actions in sub-namespaces:

php artisan make:action Auth/LoginUser
# → app/Actions/Auth/LoginUser.php  (namespace App\Actions\Auth)

php artisan make:action Billing/Subscription/CancelSubscription
# → app/Actions/Billing/Subscription/CancelSubscription.php

Overwrite an existing action (--force)

php artisan make:action SendWelcomeEmail --force

Configuration

Publish the config file to customise the default namespace and method name:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-make-action-config

config/make-action.php:

return [
    'namespace' => 'Actions',   // generates under App\Actions
    'method'    => 'handle',    // main method name (ignored for --invokable)
];

Customising stubs

Publish the stubs to tailor the generated code:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-make-action-stubs

This copies the stubs to stubs/vendor/laravel-make-action/. The command will use your published stubs automatically.

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG.md for recent changes.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

Security

Please see SECURITY.md for how to report vulnerabilities.

License

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