Working Locally

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The same strategy for local development continues to work in Craft 6.x, with only one exception. If the host project doesn’t include the recommended scripts for a Laravel app, you may need to run this, after installing your package via Composer:

ddev composer require myorg/activity-plugin

# New: Ask Laravel to 
ddev artisan package:discover

The craft6-revamp tool adds these hooks to your project’s composer.json.

If you don’t see evidence of this (or you upgraded the host project manually), add this:

{
    // ...

    "scripts": {
        "post-autoload-dump": [
            "Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump",
            "@php artisan package:discover --ansi",
            "@php artisan craft:setup:publish --ansi"
        ]
    }
}

The command for installing your plugin will also be slightly different:

ddev artisan craft:plugin:install

# ...or either of these legacy options:
ddev php craft plugin:install
ddev php craft plugin/install