An easier way to document your Laravel endpoints using Swagger

Hi everyone!
Today I want to share a library I’ve been working on that makes documenting your Laravel API endpoints much easier.

During your E2E tests, this library captures the requests made to your endpoints and automatically generates the corresponding Swagger (OpenAPI) documentation.

For example, if you have a test like this:

function test_shouldCreateUser() {
    $this
        ->perryHttp()
        ->withHeaders(['api_key' => 'some_api_key'])
        ->withBody([
            'name' => 'John Doe',
            'age' => 25,
            'email' => 'john@doe.com',
            'password' => 'password',
        ])
        ->post('/user')
        ->assertJson(['success' => true])
        ->assertStatus(Response::HTTP_CREATED);
}

The library will capture the request, response, headers, and other relevant details, then generate a Swagger-compatible YAML file documenting the endpoint automatically.

The generated file can be used with Swagger UI, Redoc, Postman, or any tool that supports OpenAPI specs.

## How to install

Install it via Composer:

composer require n4m-ward/laravel-perry

Then run the library using:

./vendor/bin/perry

You can check out the full documentation and source code on GitHub:
https://github.com/n4m-ward/perry

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