Add-ons

Directory structure

• Migrations
• Providers
  • AddonServiceProvider.php
• addon.json
• Addon.php

Service provider

Every add-on created through Nova includes a service provider that will be registered during Nova's request cycle. Service providers are a central place to register services into the container, setup event listeners, and much more. The add-on's service provider is where you can do all of your setup for the add-on to run properly or extend Nova as needed.

class AddonServiceProvider extends BaseAddonServiceProvider
{
    protected string $location = 'PostArchiver';
 
    public function boot()
    {
        Event::listen(PostPublished::class, fn () => $sendToGoogle->send());
    }
}

The boot() method is called during each Nova request and is the place to ensure that anything you need done to make your add-on work is done.

Note: in order to make add-on service providers as hands-off as possible, you will not be able to do any work in a register() method like you would in a normal Laravel application. Any work you want to do will have to be done in the boot() method.