Laravel 5: Enable laravel-debugbar

Question

I\'m using Laravel 5 and would like to use the barryvdh/laravel-debugbar. After the installation and configuration the bar is not showing.

I did the following:

Answer 1

Try this command

php artisan config:clear

Answer 2

In my case, the problem was I had a wide route, Route::get('/{all?}','...') catching the debugbar one.

I managed to solve this by adding these routes before:

Route::get( '/api/_debugbar/assets/stylesheets', '\Barryvdh\Debugbar\Controllers\AssetController@css' );
Route::get( '/api/_debugbar/assets/javascript', '\Barryvdh\Debugbar\Controllers\AssetController@js' );

Answer 3

The installation instructions at https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar#installation recommend setting the application debug mode to true. Also make sure, that you do not disable the debugbar in config/debugbar.php by setting the enabled=false > If I were you I would simply remove it. ( The debugbar won't work, event if the application itself is in debug mode )

Another suggestion

As far as I know the .env.example file should be renamed to .env and all apropriate variables should be set. In my case it always contains lines like this:

APP_ENV=local
APP_DEBUG=true`

Within the config/app.php file the debug value should be read from the environment variable.

return [
    /* some other config values here... */
    'debug' => env('APP_DEBUG'),
]

Note, that it should also be possible to simply set the value to true without using the environment based configuration values.

Maybe you can test it by manually calling \Debugbar::enable(); in one of your routes and debugging afterwards.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

to add debugger in your code step 1

1. composer require barryvdh/laravel-debugbar --dev

inside config/app.php

• Barryvdh\Debugbar\ServiceProvider::class,
• 'Debugbar' => Barryvdh\Debugbar\Facade::class,

at last run this command

1. php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Barryvdh\Debugbar\ServiceProvider"

Answer 5

I had the same issue and tried all the previous solutions without success. Finnaly I solved my problem with the following detail fix:

Install instrucions:

If you use a catch-all/fallback route, make sure you load the Debugbar ServiceProvider before your own App ServiceProviders.

Answer 6

Check your storage/laravel.log file. In mine was:

local.ERROR: Debugbar exception: Authentication user provider [] is not defined.

Because I misconfigured something in auth.php and when I fixed that debugbar loaded successfully.