poswms-backend

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Laravel Boost Guidelines

The Laravel Boost guidelines are specifically curated by Laravel maintainers for this application. These guidelines should be followed closely to ensure the best experience when building Laravel applications.

Foundational Context

This application is a Laravel application and its main Laravel ecosystems package & versions are below. You are an expert with them all. Ensure you abide by these specific packages & versions.

• php - 8.3
• laravel/framework (LARAVEL) - v13
• laravel/prompts (PROMPTS) - v0
• laravel/boost (BOOST) - v2
• laravel/mcp (MCP) - v0
• laravel/pail (PAIL) - v1
• laravel/pint (PINT) - v1
• phpunit/phpunit (PHPUNIT) - v12

Conventions

• You must follow all existing code conventions used in this application. When creating or editing a file, check sibling files for the correct structure, approach, and naming.
• Use descriptive names for variables and methods. For example, isRegisteredForDiscounts, not discount().
• Check for existing components to reuse before writing a new one.

Verification Scripts

• Do not create verification scripts or tinker when tests cover that functionality and prove they work. Unit and feature tests are more important.

Application Structure & Architecture

• Stick to existing directory structure; don't create new base folders without approval.
• Do not change the application's dependencies without approval.

Frontend Bundling

• If the user doesn't see a frontend change reflected in the UI, it could mean they need to run npm run build, npm run dev, or composer run dev. Ask them.

Documentation Files

• You must only create documentation files if explicitly requested by the user.

Replies

• Be concise in your explanations - focus on what's important rather than explaining obvious details.

=== boost rules ===

Laravel Boost

• Laravel Boost is an MCP server that comes with powerful tools designed specifically for this application. Use them.

Artisan Commands

• Run Artisan commands directly via the command line (e.g., php artisan route:list, php artisan tinker --execute "...").
• Use php artisan list to discover available commands and php artisan [command] --help to check parameters.

URLs

• Whenever you share a project URL with the user, you should use the get-absolute-url tool to ensure you're using the correct scheme, domain/IP, and port.

Debugging

• Use the database-query tool when you only need to read from the database.
• Use the database-schema tool to inspect table structure before writing migrations or models.
• To execute PHP code for debugging, run php artisan tinker --execute "your code here" directly.
• To read configuration values, read the config files directly or run php artisan config:show [key].
• To inspect routes, run php artisan route:list directly.
• To check environment variables, read the .env file directly.

Reading Browser Logs With the browser-logs Tool

• You can read browser logs, errors, and exceptions using the browser-logs tool from Boost.
• Only recent browser logs will be useful - ignore old logs.

Searching Documentation (Critically Important)

• Boost comes with a powerful search-docs tool you should use before trying other approaches when working with Laravel or Laravel ecosystem packages. This tool automatically passes a list of installed packages and their versions to the remote Boost API, so it returns only version-specific documentation for the user's circumstance. You should pass an array of packages to filter on if you know you need docs for particular packages.
• Search the documentation before making code changes to ensure we are taking the correct approach.
• Use multiple, broad, simple, topic-based queries at once. For example: ['rate limiting', 'routing rate limiting', 'routing']. The most relevant results will be returned first.
• Do not add package names to queries; package information is already shared. For example, use test resource table, not filament 4 test resource table.

Available Search Syntax

1. Simple Word Searches with auto-stemming - query=authentication - finds 'authenticate' and 'auth'.
2. Multiple Words (AND Logic) - query=rate limit - finds knowledge containing both "rate" AND "limit".
3. Quoted Phrases (Exact Position) - query="infinite scroll" - words must be adjacent and in that order.
4. Mixed Queries - query=middleware "rate limit" - "middleware" AND exact phrase "rate limit".
5. Multiple Queries - queries=["authentication", "middleware"] - ANY of these terms.

=== php rules ===

PHP

• Always use curly braces for control structures, even for single-line bodies.

Constructors

• Use PHP 8 constructor property promotion in __construct().
  • public function __construct(public GitHub $github) { }
• Do not allow empty __construct() methods with zero parameters unless the constructor is private.

Type Declarations

• Always use explicit return type declarations for methods and functions.
• Use appropriate PHP type hints for method parameters.

protected function isAccessible(User $user, ?string $path = null): bool
{
    ...
}

Enums

• Typically, keys in an Enum should be TitleCase. For example: FavoritePerson, BestLake, Monthly.

Comments

• Prefer PHPDoc blocks over inline comments. Never use comments within the code itself unless the logic is exceptionally complex.

PHPDoc Blocks

• Add useful array shape type definitions when appropriate.

=== laravel/core rules ===

Do Things the Laravel Way

• Use php artisan make: commands to create new files (i.e. migrations, controllers, models, etc.). You can list available Artisan commands using php artisan list and check their parameters with php artisan [command] --help.
• If you're creating a generic PHP class, use php artisan make:class.
• Pass --no-interaction to all Artisan commands to ensure they work without user input. You should also pass the correct --options to ensure correct behavior.

Database

• Always use proper Eloquent relationship methods with return type hints. Prefer relationship methods over raw queries or manual joins.
• Use Eloquent models and relationships before suggesting raw database queries.
• Avoid DB::; prefer Model::query(). Generate code that leverages Laravel's ORM capabilities rather than bypassing them.
• Generate code that prevents N+1 query problems by using eager loading.
• Use Laravel's query builder for very complex database operations.

Model Creation

• When creating new models, create useful factories and seeders for them too. Ask the user if they need any other things, using php artisan make:model --help to check the available options.

APIs & Eloquent Resources

• For APIs, default to using Eloquent API Resources and API versioning unless existing API routes do not, then you should follow existing application convention.

Controllers & Validation

• Always create Form Request classes for validation rather than inline validation in controllers. Include both validation rules and custom error messages.
• Check sibling Form Requests to see if the application uses array or string based validation rules.

Authentication & Authorization

• Use Laravel's built-in authentication and authorization features (gates, policies, Sanctum, etc.).

URL Generation

• When generating links to other pages, prefer named routes and the route() function.

Queues

• Use queued jobs for time-consuming operations with the ShouldQueue interface.

Configuration

• Use environment variables only in configuration files - never use the env() function directly outside of config files. Always use config('app.name'), not env('APP_NAME').

Testing

• When creating models for tests, use the factories for the models. Check if the factory has custom states that can be used before manually setting up the model.
• Faker: Use methods such as $this->faker->word() or fake()->randomDigit(). Follow existing conventions whether to use $this->faker or fake().
• When creating tests, make use of php artisan make:test [options] {name} to create a feature test, and pass --unit to create a unit test. Most tests should be feature tests.

Vite Error

• If you receive an "Illuminate\Foundation\ViteException: Unable to locate file in Vite manifest" error, you can run npm run build or ask the user to run npm run dev or composer run dev.

=== pint/core rules ===

Laravel Pint Code Formatter

• If you have modified any PHP files, you must run vendor/bin/pint --dirty --format agent before finalizing changes to ensure your code matches the project's expected style.
• Do not run vendor/bin/pint --test --format agent, simply run vendor/bin/pint --format agent to fix any formatting issues.

=== phpunit/core rules ===

PHPUnit

• This application uses PHPUnit for testing. All tests must be written as PHPUnit classes. Use php artisan make:test --phpunit {name} to create a new test.
• If you see a test using "Pest", convert it to PHPUnit.
• Every time a test has been updated, run that singular test.
• When the tests relating to your feature are passing, ask the user if they would like to also run the entire test suite to make sure everything is still passing.
• Tests should cover all happy paths, failure paths, and edge cases.
• You must not remove any tests or test files from the tests directory without approval. These are not temporary or helper files; these are core to the application.

Running Tests

• Run the minimal number of tests, using an appropriate filter, before finalizing.
• To run all tests: php artisan test --compact.
• To run all tests in a file: php artisan test --compact tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php.
• To filter on a particular test name: php artisan test --compact --filter=testName (recommended after making a change to a related file).