Notes on beyondcode-laravel/er-diagram-generator

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:28:38 +0100

Notes on beyondcode-laravel-er-diagram-generator

Generate entity relation diagrams from your Laravel model files.

Overview

I have used different software over the years to produce schema diagrams of database structures in order to quickly gain or remind myself of the moving parts of what I’m working with. It seemed to me there should really be something for laravel which utilises the artisan command to do this.

Terms

“ER Diagram” - Entity Relationship Diagram

What it does

This software provides a new artisan command

Installation

sudo apt-get install graphviz
# install instructions
composer require beyondcode/laravel-er-diagram-generator --dev

First impressions

The command has no filters, so you get the whole thing and it’s too much for an established codebase. You can filter by updating a config file.

There is an output format of text for LLM usage.

Pros

Quick to install.
Contains all the data
Looks to DB for column types

Cons

Can’t specify on the command line a single Model and it’s relations.
Graphic output is not searchable.
Graphviz gets all the relations on a massive png, but not in an easy way to find what you are looking for. The lines between entitites are too large.

Look at this and imagine following a bunch of lines to find the relations:

Notes

This is not a good choice as of 09/06/2026 if you have more than a dozen or so tables/models in your project and you want to investigate them in parts.

But you could use the output to get the .dot to then edit and pass to graphviz. That could be a pain though.

Notes on ManukMinasyan-filament-blog

Mon, 11 May 2026 17:14:16 +0100

Notes on ManukMinasyan-filament-blog

Headless blog package for Filament with SEO, MCP tools, and publishable components

Overview

I found this today when considering writing a laravel package to run a blog. I was going to use Filament for the back end and I had a look around and I found Firefly Filament Blog and thought that looked better.

But then I noticed it supported Laravel 11 and Filament 3.x . Which means it’s old.

I search github by “most recently updated” and found this one.

What it does

It uses the Ralph J Smit Laravel Filemant SEO Package and Filament PHP to provide a backend to a blog with Markdown editor.

Installation

Installation was a little convoluted.

It’s not on packagist so I did a clone and added that repo to my composer.json repositories.

There was an option to use the automatic routes, but that didn’t quite work as it wasn’t using layouts the way my application was using layouts, and so I had to publish the vendor views. Which didn’t work.

I had to also follow the install instructions for this package, which I had to understand myself. Ralph J Smit Laravel SEO Package

First impressions

Almost perfect for what I need. Easy to fix what isn’t right.

Pros

It supports the latest Filament.
The Seo support works well.
It has categories and tags.
It has an RSS feed.
It looks easy to work on.

Cons

It’s clearly the work of just one guy at the moment:

But it is under active development and it does support the latest Filament. And the first commit was on a special day for me, so maybe that’s a sign.

I’ve found a couple of bugs.

Notes

There were example views in the docs different to the views that would be used by default. Which is confusing. But I think things are likely to change quickly.

Worth following

Software on R A Fletcher's Blog

Notes on beyondcode-laravel/er-diagram-generator

Notes on beyondcode-laravel-er-diagram-generator

Overview

Terms

What it does

Installation

First impressions

Pros

Cons

Notes

Notes on ManukMinasyan-filament-blog

Notes on ManukMinasyan-filament-blog

Overview

What it does

Installation

First impressions

Pros

Cons

Notes