tinker.macro

Evaluate Laravel code at build-time, via Laravel Tinker

Installation

Install babel-plugin-macros (along with tinker.macro) and add it to your babel config:

npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-macros tinker.macro

.babelrc:

{
  "plugins": ["macros"]
}

That’s it!

Basic Usage

import tinker from 'tinker.macro'
let isDebug = tinker`config('app.debug')`
 
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let isDebug = true

If you are executing a single function call you can import the function like this:

import { config } from 'tinker.macro'
let isDebug = config('app.debug')
 
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let isDebug = true

There is also a convenient way to access App\* class methods and properties:

import { Article } from 'tinker.macro'
let article = Article.where('id', 7).first()
 
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let article = {
  id: 7,
  title: 'Hello, world',
  body: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.'
  // etc.
}

This is the same as:

import tinker from 'tinker.macro'
let articles = tinker`App\\Article::where('id', 7)->first()`

More Examples

route function

import tinker, { route } from 'tinker.macro'
// these are equivalent
let articleRoute1 = route('article', { id: 1 })
let articleRoute2 = tinker`route('article', ['id' => 1])`
 
// ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
 
let articleRoute1 = 'http://localhost/article/1'
let articleRoute2 = 'http://localhost/article/1'

Retrieving a list of named routes

import tinker from 'tinker.macro'
 
let routes = tinker`
  $routes = [];
  foreach (app()->routes->getRoutes() as $route) {
    $name = $route->getName();
    if ($name !== null) {
      $uri = $route->uri;
      $routes[$name] = ($uri === '/' ? '' : '/') . $uri;
    }
  }
  $routes;
`
 
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let routes = {
  home: '/',
  blog: '/blog',
  post: '/blog/{slug}'
}

Re-evaluating on change

If you are using webpack you can ensure that expressions are re-evaluated when updating your Laravel app. Add the loader – tinker.macro/webpack – to your webpack configuration, like so:

module.exports = {
  // ...
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.js$/,
        exclude: /node_modules/,
        loader: 'tinker.macro/webpack'
      }
      // ...
    ]
  }
  // ...
}