The make:fullapi Command

make:fullapi is the heart of the package. It accepts an entity name with inline fields, or reads from a schema file, a Mermaid diagram or your existing database.

Basic usage

php artisan make:fullapi Post --fields="title:string,content:text,published:boolean"

Soft deletes

php artisan make:fullapi Post --fields="title:string,content:text" --soft-deletes

Adds the SoftDeletes trait, a softDeletes() migration column, restore() / forceDelete() methods, and two extra routes:

POST   /api/posts/{id}/restore
DELETE /api/posts/{id}/force-delete

Sanctum authentication

php artisan make:fullapi Post --fields="title:string" --auth

Scaffolds a complete token-based auth system: AuthController (register, login, logout, user), LoginRequest, RegisterRequest, public auth routes, and wraps your API resource routes inside auth:sanctum middleware.

Method	Route	Access
POST	/api/register	Public
POST	/api/login	Public
POST	/api/logout	auth:sanctum
GET	/api/user	auth:sanctum
GET	/api/posts	auth:sanctum (your resources require a token too)

Then install Sanctum if not already present:

composer require laravel/sanctum
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel\Sanctum\SanctumServiceProvider"
php artisan migrate

Postman collection

php artisan make:fullapi Post --fields="title:string" --postman

Exports a postman_collection.json (v2.1 schema) at the project root: a folder per entity with List, Create, Show, Update and Delete requests pre-filled with sample data. See API Docs & Postman.

Spatie QueryBuilder

composer require spatie/laravel-query-builder
php artisan make:fullapi Post --fields="title:string,content:text" --query-builder

Index endpoints become filterable and sortable through the community-standard spatie/laravel-query-builder:

GET /api/posts?filter[title]=laravel&sort=-created_at

The flag works with every generation mode, and query_builder: true can be set globally or per entity in a schema file.

Without the flag, generated index endpoints still support simple filtering on any fillable field (GET /api/posts?published=true); other parameters are silently ignored.

Pest tests

php artisan make:fullapi Post --fields="title:string" --pest

Generates it(...) / expect(...) style tests instead of PHPUnit classes, with the same coverage. See Generated Tests.

Interactive wizard

php artisan make:fullapi --interactive

A step-by-step guided setup: entity name, fields one by one (type, nullable, unique, default), relationships, options, and a full preview before generation. Ideal for configuring constraints not available in the --fields string syntax.

Regenerate selected files with --only=

To rebuild a Resource or a Test without touching everything else:

php artisan make:fullapi Post --fields="title:string,content:text" --only=FeatureTest,UnitTest

When --only= is set, the migration, the apiResource route and the DatabaseSeeder registration are left untouched: only the listed artifacts are rewritten.

Available types: Model, Controller, Service, DTO, Request, Resource, Migration, Factory, Seeder, Policy, FeatureTest, UnitTest.

Deleting an entity

php artisan delete:fullapi Post

Removes all generated files, unregisters the seeder from DatabaseSeeder.php, and cleans the entity's routes from routes/api.php and routes/web.php. Called without an entity name, it deletes every entity defined in class_data.json.

If older deletions left routes pointing at controllers that no longer exist (the classic route:list ReflectionException), purge them:

Preview

php artisan api-generator:clean-routes --dry-run

Apply

php artisan api-generator:clean-routes

All options combined

php artisan make:fullapi Post --fields="title:string,content:text" --soft-deletes --postman --auth --pest

The full flag list lives in the CLI Reference.