daravel 1.1.0

A Laravel-inspired, AOT-native backend framework for Dart with routing, validation, an ORM, auth, queues and Laravel-compatible wire formats.

daravel

A Laravel-inspired, AOT-native backend framework for Dart. Routing, middleware, validation with Laravel's rules and messages, a query builder and an Eloquent-style ORM, migrations, Sanctum-compatible tokens, JWT, gates, cache, queues, events, a scheduler, API resources, storage and structured logging, served by one native executable that scales across isolates.

Laravel and Daravel can share a database: error and pagination JSON, Sanctum tokens, bcrypt hashes, Crypt payloads and the framework tables use Laravel's formats, locked by a conformance suite.

Why Daravel?

1. One native bundle. dartisan build compiles the app ahead of time, with SQLite bundled by a build hook: no SDK, PHP-FPM or Node.js on the server. It serves its first request about 14 ms after starting, and worker isolates share the compiled code (about 11 MB idle with one worker, 12 MB with four, on a Linux CI runner).
2. No reflection, no build_runner. Generators write plain Dart into explicit registries, so the compiler sees exactly what you read.
3. Every core on one port. A supervisor runs N worker isolates, respawns crashes and drains on SIGTERM; a coordinator isolate keeps locks, the process cache and rate limits correct across workers without Redis.
4. Request state stays in its request. Requests, jobs and commands run in their own Zone scope; transactions are zone-aware, with savepoints and after-commit dispatch.
5. Runs next to Laravel on the same SQLite or PostgreSQL database (or MySQL and MariaDB with daravel_mysql), so an application can move endpoint by endpoint.
6. Routes that document themselves. .validates(...) and .returns(...) enforce 403/422 before the handler and generate OpenAPI 3.1.
7. Guard rails included. Hashing in compute isolates, AST lints against SQL interpolation and reflection, and security and conformance suites.

Laravel	Daravel
Route::post('/posts', [PostController::class, 'store']) with StorePostRequest $request	router.post('/posts', posts.store).validates(const StorePostRequest())
$request->validated()	request.validated()
$request->integer('page', 1)	await request.integer('page', 1)
User::where('active', true)->paginate()	await User.query().where('active', true).paginate()
DB::transaction(fn () => ...)	await DB.transaction(() async => ...)

Get started

The fastest way is the CLI, which creates a complete project:

dart pub global activate dartisan_cli
dartisan new blog
cd blog
dart run bin/dartisan.dart migrate --seed
dart run bin/dartisan.dart serve --watch

Or add the framework to an existing package:

dart pub add daravel

import 'package:daravel/daravel.dart';

Application createApp() => Application.configure(basePath: '.')
    .withRouting(
      apiPrefix: '/api',
      api: (router) {
        router.get('/ping', (_) => {'message': 'pong'});
        router.post('/users', (request) async {
          final data = await request.validate({
            'email': 'required|email|unique:users',
            'password': 'required|min:8|confirmed',
          });
          return Response.created(data.toMap());
        });
      },
    )
    .create();

Future<void> main() async => Application.serveWith(createApp);

See example/main.dart and the documentation, including the Laravel ⇄ Daravel parity table.

Related packages

• dartisan_cli: project creation, dev server with hot reload, generators, migrations, native builds.
• daravel_test: TestClient, assertions, database helpers, fakes and Laravel conformance matchers.
• daravel_lints: AST lint rules for Daravel applications.

License and trademarks

MIT. "Laravel" is a trademark of Laravel Holdings Inc.; "Dart" and "Flutter" are trademarks of Google LLC. Daravel is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by either.