Laravel Docs Workflow for Alfred

Search the Laravel documentation using Alfred.

Installation

1. Download the latest version
2. Install the workflow by double-clicking the .alfredworkflow file
3. You can add the workflow to a category, then click "Import" to finish importing. You'll now see the workflow listed in the left sidebar of your Workflows preferences pane.

Usage

Just type ld followed by your search query.

ld request

Either press ⌘Y to Quick Look the result, or press to open it in your web browser.

Changing the Laravel version to search

The workflow supports searching the documentation of several versions. To change the branch, configure the Workflow as show in the image below.

Note

Kudos to tillkruss/alfred-laravel-docs for the initial inspiration.

The lightning fast search is powered by Algolia using the same index as the official Laravel Docs website.

Development

The workflow is implemented in Rust and requires Rust 1.88 or newer. Copy .env.example to .env and fill in the three Algolia search values, then run a local query with:

cargo run -- -q "request"

Configuration precedence is runtime environment, then the explicit working-directory .env, then values embedded at build time. Install cargo-about with cargo install cargo-about --locked --features cli, then run the complete local check suite with make ci. To build the release directory or create an installable workflow for the current architecture, run make build-release or make package. GitHub releases contain one universal binary supporting arm64 macOS 11+ and Intel macOS 10.15+. The .env file is never copied into a package.