Inspired by Bourbon Refill's Rails generators, Component Generator is a Laravel 4 package to quickly generate HTML components from Web Frameworks such as Twitter Bootstrap via command line.

By default running the following command will create a new file in views/components/navbar.blade.php with the Twitter Bootstrap navigation bar.

php artisan component:generate navbar

If you want to change the directory the file is created in your can use the --path option

php artisan component:generate navbar --path="app/views"

To append a component to an already existing file use component:append

php artisan component:append navbar layouts.default

The first argument is the component. The second argument is the template to append to - located inside of app/views.

"acoustep/component-generator": "dev-master"

Add the service provider

'Acoustep\ComponentGenerator\ComponentGeneratorServiceProvider',

If you wish to change your settings you can run

php artisan config:publish acoustep/component-generator

Or

php artisan component:setup

'framework' => 'bootstrap3'

This is the name of the directory to copy views from. Alternatives include foundation5 and pure1.

'directory' => 'components'

Where the components are copied to. This will be in the app/views directory. To copy them to the root of views change it to an empty string.

'prefix' => ''

Put a prefix on filenames. For instance, if you come from a Rails background and prefer to use an underscore to prefix partials then you can set that here.

'postfix' => '.blade.php',
'syntax' => 'blade',

Don't use blade? You can change to normal PHP templates with the following settings

'postfix' => '.php',
'syntax' => 'php',

To list all the components via command line use

php artisan component:list

To view a specific framework's components pass in the framework option

php artisan component:list --framework=bootstrap3

• alerts
• breadcrumb
• button-group
• button-dropdown
• carousel
• collapse
• dropdown
• layout
• form
• form-inline
• form-horizontal
• jumbotron
• list-group
• media
• modal
• nav-tabs
• nav-pills
• navbar
• navbar-fixed-top
• navbar-fixed-bottom
• navbar-static-top
• pagination
• pagination-pager
• page-header
• panels
• progress
• progress-animated
• progress-stacked
• thumbnails
• wells

• accordion
• alerts
• breadcrumb
• button-dropdown
• button-group
• button-split
• equalizer
• form
• iconbar
• joyride
• layout
• modal
• offcanvas
• orbit
• pagination
• panel
• pricing-table
• progress
• range-slider
• table
• tabs-vertical
• tabs
• thumbnails
• tooltip
• topbar
• video

• form-aligned
• form-inline
• form-multi
• form
• layout
• menu
• pagination
• table

• Ability to publish views for customising before generation.

The base of this code is from Jeffrey Way's Book Laravel Testing Decoded. A great book which has helped me a lot!