Finder - Simple file content search tool

By default, it uses the ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) to search for files matching your criteria.

You are free to create your own search driver

TODO:

To get the result on the frontend as quickly as possible, I recommend using websockets

You can use for example soketi (https://github.com/soketi/soketi), or third-party services like pusher on the server side, and Laravel echo (https://github.com/laravel/echo) on the frontend

When the match is found, it triggers Link000\Finder\Events\SearchResultFoundEvent event

You can implement your own listener and handle the event by yourself

In that case, I recommend turning off the broadcasting functionality provided by the package, by setting the broadcasting.method config to empty value

TODO: Dependencies

• find
• ripgrep

Configuration

1. using configuration file

publish the finder configuration by running

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Link000\Finder\FinderServiceProvider" --tag="config"

and adjust settings in the config/finder.php file

2. runtime configuration

get config value

config('finder.search_base_path')

set config value

config('finder.search_base_path', '/my/custom/path')

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Configs

Options applied only on routes published in default routes/finder.php file

Config name	Default value	Description
route_prefix	finder	Prefix for default routes provided by package (located in routes/finder.php)
route_middlewares	['web']	Middlewares for default routes provided by package (located in routes/finder.php)

Broadcasting options

Config name	Default value	Description
broadcasting.broadcast_name	Link000\Finder\Events\SearchResultFoundBroadcastEvent	Event name you will listen to on the frontend
broadcasting.channel_name	finder.results	If you use private channel, user id will be automatically appended, so the final channel will be in the format finder.results.{user_id}
broadcasting.channel_type	private	[public/private] User must be authenticated, otherwise public will be used
broadcasting.method	websockets	Broadcast every search result using websockets. If you change or leave it blank, you will disable the broadcasting provided by the package

Other options

Config name	Default value	Description
search_base_path	base_path()	Where to search
driver	env('FINDER_DRIVER', 'rg')	Active search driver
drivers	['rg' => Link000\Finder\Drivers\RipGrepSearchDriver::class]	Registered search drivers (you can change during runtime)

TODO:

broadcast_method broadcasting.broadcast_name broadcasting.channel_type (public/private, if user is not authenticated, it will fallback to the public channel) broadcasting.channel_name

Adding custom search driver

You can add custom search driver by implementing the Link000\Finder\Interfaces\FinderInterface

• Create your custom driver and implement Link000\Finder\Interfaces\FinderInterface
• Add your driver including the full namespace into the finder.drivers config

// ... other configs
'drivers' => [
	'my_custom_driver' => App\Drivers\MyCustomSearchDriver::class,
],

• activate your driver
  • by changing ENV variable

   FINDER_DRIVER='my_custom_driver'

  • by changing finder.driver config

   // ... other configs
   'driver' => 'my_custom_driver',

  • or setting the driver at the runtime

   use Link000\Finder\Interfaces\FinderInterface
  
   class YourController {
   	protected FinderInterface $finderService;
  
   	public function __construct(FinderInterface $finderService) {
   		$this->finderService = $finderService;
   	}
  
   	public function search() {
   		// use your driver dynamically
   		$this->finderService->setDriver(app(MyCustomSearchDriver::class));
   	}
   }

Installing pre-defined stacks

This installs pre-defined stack with routes, controllers, services, styles etc.

I recommend to have a clean git working tree, so you can see newly created files

You should customize or remove unnecessary to fit your current application

Available stacks

• vue (vue + inertia, tailwind)
• blade (blade, tailwind)
• api (routes only)

php artisan finder:install

Notes for package development

Adding package to the project during package development

add to your application composer.json:

"repositories": [
	{
		"type": "path",
		"url": "/packages/*",
		"options": {
			"symlink": true
		}
	}
]

This instructs composer to look for packages in the /packages and creates a symlink to the installed package

symlink:false will copy the package into the vendor directory, instead of creating a symlink (default behavior)

update composer:

composer update