Hexavel Spark is a simple compatibility library designed to work with Laravel Spark and the Hexavel version of Laravel. This library still requires you to buy a license for Spark and is useless with out one.

This package is purely supported by myself Peter Fox and using it could throw up issues which isn't covered by Spark itself due to the nature of using a different folder structure to Laravel as well as an off shoots of Laravel Elixir made for Hexavel.

Hexavel has never been meant for beginner users and you shouldn't use Hexavel unless you're sure of what you're doing.

First create a Hexavel project per the instructions and then download a copy of Spark and paste it into the support/packages directory of the project. You can then modify composer.json with

    "repositories": [
            {
                "type": "path",
                "url": "./support/packages/spark"
            }
    ]        

Then run:

composer require laravel/cashier 
composer require laravel/spark:*@dev
composer require hexavel/spark 

Then add the Hexavel Spark provider to the config/app.php e.g.

/*
 * Application Service Providers...
 */
Hexavel\Spark\Providers\SparkServiceProvider::class,
Laravel\Cashier\CashierServiceProvider::class,

If you then run bin/artisan you should see the new spark commands added, they should also say (Hexavel Modified) in the description.

You should then simply be able to run bin/artisan spark:install --force or bin/artisan spark:install --team-billing --force and have the stubs for Spark installed in the correction positions for Hexavel.

Afterwards you just need to add the newly installed SparkServiceProvider.

/*
 * Application Service Providers...
 */
Hexavel\Spark\Providers\SparkServiceProvider::class,
Laravel\Cashier\CashierServiceProvider::class,
App\Laravel\Providers\SparkServiceProvider::class, // App Spark Provider

Then the final step to a fully working Spark/Hexavel Project is to run npm install and then gulp to build all the javascript and less assets as well as bin/artisan migrate to install the database tables.

To upgrade you should first run composer update to check for a new version of Hexavel Spark you can then update Spark the same way for Hexavel as Laravel via bin/artisan spark:update. The main difference with Hexavel is you will be warned if we're yet to check the compatibility of the library with Spark. For the most part it shouldn't be an issue but this can't always be guaranteed.