Laravel API Generator

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Entity Diagram & Sidebar ​

The entity diagram ​

A canvas view of every generated entity and how they relate.

Entity diagram

  • Relationship links are smooth Bezier curves anchored to the nearest card edge, with arrowheads and cardinality labels in readable pills.
  • Hovering a card highlights its connections; inverse declarations (Post hasMany Comment + Comment belongsTo Post) are merged into a single link; self-referential relations render as a small loop.
  • The canvas is infinite: drag or scroll to pan across the dotted grid in any direction. Ctrl+wheel zooms toward the cursor, and cards stay draggable at any zoom. The toolbar has −/+/100%/Fit.

The sidebar home ​

The activity bar view opens on a home panel, so every way to generate is one click away.

  • New API opens the visual builder.
  • Generate from lists the other sources: existing database, schema file, Mermaid diagram.
  • Explore jumps to the entity diagram, the snippets picker and this documentation.

The panel follows your VS Code theme and the extension's language setting (English or French).

The sidebar explorer ​

Below it, the Generated Entities view tracks everything the generator created.

Sidebar explorer

Each entity expands into three groups:

  • Files: a green check / red slash per artifact (Model, Controller, Service…); click to open.
  • Fields: read from the model's $fillable.
  • Relations: extracted from the model's relation methods, shown as belongsTo → Author.

A file watcher keeps the tree and the status bar in sync when APIs are generated or deleted outside the extension, from the terminal or after a git pull.

Entity actions ​

Right-click (or use the inline icons) on any entity:

  • Add Fields to Entity…: type excerpt:text,status:enum(draft,published) and the package creates an incremental migration and patches the model, request, factory and resource in place via --add-fields, with one click to run the migration after. See Evolving Entities.
  • Regenerate File(s)…: the extension parses the existing migration to recover the field list, then lets you multi-select which artifacts to rebuild. The underlying call is make:fullapi --only=…, so the migration, route and seeder registration are left untouched.
  • Delete: full cleanup via delete:fullapi (files, routes, seeder registration).

Ctrl+Alt+R (Cmd+Alt+R on macOS) from any generated file jumps to its siblings (model to controller to service to test) without hunting through the tree.