The Hassle-Free automatic API documentation generation for Laravel.
A Swagger alternative.
Supports Open API 3.0.0

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Fast Install on any Laravel Project

Hassle Free Auto Generate API Documentation for request rules and parameters

Analyze Inbuilt SQL query time analyzer, response time and headers output.

Supports Postman and OpenAPI 3.0.0 exports.

Features

• Light and Dark mode
• Automatic rules fetching from injected Request and by regexp
• Automatic routes fetching from Laravel Routes
• Support for Laravel logs
• Support for SQL query and query time
• Support for HTTP response time and memory consumption
• Support for Authorization Headers
• Support for File uploads
• Support for Eloquents events
• Display extra documentation using markdown
• Saves history previous requests
• Added filters to sort, group and filter routes by methods, controllers, middlewares, routes
• Export Laravel API, routes, rules and documentation to Postman and OpenAPI 3.0.0

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Automatically generate API documentation for Laravel without writing annotations.

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Requirements

Lang	Versions
PHP	7.4 or 8.0 or 8.1 or 8.2
Laravel	6.* or 8.* or 9.* or 10.*

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require rakutentech/laravel-request-docs

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=request-docs-config
php artisan route:cache

# Optional publish assets
# php artisan vendor:publish --tag=request-docs-assets

(optional) Add the following middleware to your API, so that the SQL logs and model events are captured.

app/Http/Kernel.php

        'api' => [
            ...
            \Rakutentech\LaravelRequestDocs\LaravelRequestDocsMiddleware::class,
            ... and so on

Usage

Dashboard

View in the browser on /request-docs/

Design pattern

For this plugin to work, you need to follow the design pattern by injecting the request class inside the controller. For extra documentation you can use markdown inside your controller method as well.

Screenshots

Dark and Light Modes

• Uses local storage to save the history of previous requests and request headers.
• Request, SQL, response and events timeline below:

Settings to sort, group and filter

Extra

You write extra documentation in markdown which will be rendered as HTML on the dashboard. Example of using it in the controller

    /**
     * @lrd:start
     * Hello markdown
     * Free `code` or *text* to write documentation in markdown
     * @lrd:end
     */
    public function index(MyIndexRequest $request): Resource
    {

Params not in rules

You write extra params with rules with @LRDparam in the comment line as one line

    /**
     * @LRDparam username string|max:32
     * // either space or pipe
     * @LRDparam nickaname string|nullable|max:32
     * // override the default response codes
     * @LRDparam responses 200,422
     */
    public function index(MyIndexRequest $request): Resource
    {

Testing

./vendor/bin/phpunit

Linting

./vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=phpcs.xml --extensions=php --ignore=tests/migrations config/ src/

Fixing lints

./vendor/bin/php-cs-fixer fix src/
./vendor/bin/php-cs-fixer fix config/

Star History

Changelog

• Initial Release
• v1.9 Added improvements such as status code, response headers, custom request headers and fixed issues reported by users
• v1.10 Show PHP memory usage, gzip encoding fix
• v1.12 Bug fix of id, and Laravel 9 support
• v1.13 Laravel 9 support
• v1.15 Adds Filter and fall back to regexp upon Exception
• v1.17 Do not restrict to FormRequest
• v1.18 Fix where prism had fixed height. Allow the text area resize.
• v1.18 Updated UI and pushed unit tests
• v1.19 Exception -> Throwable for type error
• v1.20 Feature support open api 3.0.0 #10
• v1.21 Ability to add custom params
• v1.22 Boolean|File|Image support
• v1.22 Boolean|File|Image support
• v1.23 Bug fix for LRD doc block #76
• v1.27 A few fixes on width and added request_methods
• v2.0 UI Renewal to React Static
  • @QAParam is now @LRDparam
  • No special changes for users, upgrade to v2.x as usual
  • Upgrading users will need to republish config
• v2.1 UI - adds search bar and few alignment fixes on table
• v2.2 PHP 8.1 and 8.2 support added - Groupby enabled for routes and controllers
• v2.3 Bug fix for local storage (tabs) and full UI refactored after alpha
• v2.4 Show version on navbar and curl is using ace editor
• v2.5 Groupby final fix and local storage clear button. Other UI refactor
• v2.6 File uploads
• v2.7 Show activity on Eloquent models
• v2.8 Show full activity on Eloquent models
• v2.13 Bug fixes, and nested params support
• v2.14 Adds path params support
• v2.16 Top Navbar is fixed
• v2.19 Publish _astro assets
• v2.25 laravel-request-docs:export command to export

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