L5.5 : How to auto discover package? - laravel

Question

I want to create package and I following this tutorial https://devdojo.com/blog/tutorials/how-to-create-a-laravel-package
I want to use auto discover the new feature of L5.5, how step-3 should be? (what I need to write on laravel's composer.json)

Answer 1

Laravel’s custom package’s providers will be auto-discovered only if the package present in vendor folder, So for that we need to make our package installable via composer itself.
So we need to make our custom package should be installable via composer, for that set your applications composer file with minimum-stability as dev is must and we have to configure custom packages path.
"minimum-stability" : "dev",
"repositories": [
{
"type": "path",
"url": "./packages/suresh/calc/"
}
]
once you done that your package can be installed using composer require <vendor/package>, then it will configure auto discover as per your packages settings. Get the sample configurations for your package,
{
"name": "suresh/calc",
"description": "This demo for auto discover providers in laravel with custom package",
"authors": [
{
"name": "Suresh Veluamy",
"email": "sureshamk#gmail.com"
}
],
"minimum-stability": "stable",
"require": {},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Suresh\\": "src/"
}
},
"extra": {
"laravel": {
"providers": [
"Suresh\\Calc\\CalcServiceProvider"
]
}
}
}
For more information, i wrote a post, check it out here