Been seeing the buzz about this video in my feeds. Awesome stuff! Perfect use case for Blueprint - generating the foundation of a new application.

As the creator of Blueprint, I figured I'd leave a few pro-tips.

Blueprint is all about leveraging Laravel conventions. It gives you so much for free like primary keys, timestamps, and relationships. For example, any foreign key can simply be of type id or foreign. Blueprint will automatically set the correct database column type and create the belongsTo relationship. Using this type would have avoided the need for manually defining relationships and the use of randomNumber() in the factory (as shown in this video).

Also, while publishing the stubs is an option, it should be a last resort. Blueprint has a configuration file where you can specify things like using guarded over fillable, which PHPDocs to generate, and more. For a lot of the customizations in this video, I would recommend changing the configuration or using tasks in the Shift CLI over publishing stubs.

Again, just some pro-tips for future users. Definitely noticed a few other tweaks I'm going to make after seeing this video. PRs inbound.

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