Setup

Although you can start creating a module from an existing Laravel app, or start from scratch, we provide a template to get started from. To install this template, run

composer create-project bristol-su/template my-module

Each module must be assigned a unique alias, which is the unique ID to refer to the module as. Since each module has their own alias, you must change the template alias to set up your own module.

You should remove the vendor and node_modules folder before following the below steps.

  • Find and replace the namespace BristolSU\Module\Template to MyName\ModuleName or similar.

  • Rename the view namespaces, element IDs and asset links. Find and replace template to my-module, excluding the package.json dependencies and the Vue ExampleComponent.

  • Edit the config to represent your module

  • Find and replace the test namespace BristolSU\Module\Tests\Template to MyName\Tests\ModuleName or similar.

  • Change composer.json to represent your module

    • Author, name and description

    • Autoloading namespaces to match your namespaces

  • Install the project dependencies with npm install, npm run dev and composer install