Laravel Nova Docs Workflow for Alfred

Search the Laravel Nova 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 nova followed by your search query.

nova resource

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

Changing Branches

The workflow supports searching the documentation of all branches: v1, v2, v3 and v4. By default it searches the v4 branch. To search branch v3 simply type v3 anywhere in your query, like so:

nova resource v3

Note

Originally I wanted this to be a fork of Bill Clark's Laravel Nova Documentation Search Workflow for Alfred which has a major issue that inhibits a user from opening a web browser window once they press . And because I worked a lot with Laravel Nova recently I figured it would be nice to still have a working Alfred workflow for Laravel Nova's docs. But since Bill's original Alfred workflow was written in PHP and I wrote mine in Python a pull request would not have made much sense.

Recently macOS 12.3 removed Python 2, so I decided to bite the bullet and re-write the workflow in Dart. That way I can simply compile it into an executable which has no other dependencies.

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