Generate a dashboard widget | Laravel / AdminLTE 3 Boilerplate

The dashboard is composed of configurable widgets. It is possible to generate these widgets using an artisan command.

# Artisan Command

To generate a new widget for the dashboard, you can use the following artisan command:

php artisan boilerplate:widget

You can also directly define the name of the widget to generate as an argument of the command:

php artisan boilerplate:widget "my awesome widget"

Using this command with this example, three files will be generated:

/app/Dashboard/MyAwesomeWidget.php: class called for rendering the widget, functions like a view composer
/resources/views/dashboard/widgets/my-awesome-widget.blade.php: the view of the widget that will be rendered
/resources/views/dashboard/widgets/my-awesome-widgetEdit.blade.php: the view of the widget parameter editing form

By default, datatable classes are placed in the folder app/Dashboard

But you can declare your own widgets classes within your package service provider by using the boilerplate.dashboard.widgets singleton :

public function boot()
{
    app('boilerplate.dashboard.widgets')->registerWidget(MyPackageFirstWidget::class, MyPackageSecondWidget::class);
}