https://github.com/davestewart/laravel-sketchpad

An innovative front-end environment for interactive Laravel development
https://github.com/davestewart/laravel-sketchpad

demo laravel live-coding prototyping testing tinker tooling

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An innovative front-end environment for interactive Laravel development

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/davestewart/laravel-sketchpad
• Owner: davestewart
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-04-18T23:13:49.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-04-18T08:57:40.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-18T17:13:13.912Z (14 days ago)
• Topics: demo, laravel, live-coding, prototyping, testing, tinker, tooling
• Language: PHP
• Homepage:
• Size: 4.67 MB
• Stars: 296
• Watchers: 17
• Forks: 19
• Open Issues: 39
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Laravel Sketchpad

## Introduction

Sketchpad is an innovative, bolt-on development environment for your existing Laravel site.

It's a place to write, test, experiment and execute code, or just a place to group useful tools and functions you want easy access to.

![image](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/132681/24509000/14ee5b96-155d-11e7-95ed-7712a32dceb6.png)

## Overview

Sketchpad provides an alternative structure of controllers, views, assets and routing that lives alongside your main Laravel installation.

You can navigate methods, interactively modify parameters, and even [live-reload](https://github.com/davestewart/laravel-sketchpad-reload) the code you're working on, all from a friendly UI.

Additional tooling and functionality is designed to make it quick and easy to develop or debug new tools, features and code.

## Demo

View the live demo at:

- [sketchpad.davestewart.io/sketchpad](http://sketchpad.davestewart.io/sketchpad)

## Uses

- Test out new coding ideas

- Develop tools and utilities for everyday work

- Debug applications in the same environment they're running in 

- Practice with new libraries or APIs with your existing code

- Give new hires a place to get up to speed with the codebase

- Double check how that rarely-used function actually works

- Give all that "secret" or commented-out code somewhere to live 

- Live-document existing features and tools

- Generate and manage reports

## More info

For installation and usage instructions, see the [wiki](https://github.com/davestewart/laravel-sketchpad/wiki).