Expressive

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Installation ​

Requirements ​

Expressive requires PHP 8.3 or higher and supports Laravel 12 and 13.

Installing Expressive ​

You may install Expressive into a Laravel application with Composer:

shell
composer require wendelladriel/laravel-expressive

Laravel discovers the package service provider automatically. The service provider registers the configuration file, Artisan commands, and Eloquent macros used by the package.

Publishing package files ​

You may publish all Expressive resources with the package's umbrella tag:

shell
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="expressive"

This publishes the configuration file to config/expressive.php and the generator stub to stubs/expressive.stub.

If you only need one resource, you may publish the config file or stub separately:

shell
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="expressive-config"
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="expressive-stubs"

Publishing the stub is optional. Expressive uses its bundled stub unless stubs/expressive.stub exists in your application.

Next steps ​

After installation, review the configuration options, add the IsExpressive trait to a model, and define or generate an Expressive class for that model.