---
title: "Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams with Laravel"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/generate-entity-relationship-diagrams-with-laravel-4mp5ae4ey
source_url: https://laravel-news.com/laravel-entity-relationshiop-diagrams
type: article
source: "Laravel News"
published: 2024-09-03T13:11:09.884Z
updated: 2024-11-08T08:06:09.890Z
tags: ["webdev", "github", "laravel", "mysql"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 139
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams with Laravel

**[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 1 min read · 139 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

The Laravel ERD package allows for automatic generation of Entity-Relationship Diagrams from Laravel models with ease and provides visually appealing results. It offers advanced instructions for excluding tables and generating SVG files. While still under development, users can find installation and usage instructions on GitHub.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@tanvirshaikh** · 1 upvotes

> this is cool. recently came across [chartdb.io](chartdb.io). i was using that to visualize db. but i didn't get how to import directly from model as you mentioned here. can you help ?

**@marcodantino** · 0 upvotes

> It's great, as an alternative I recommend https://dbdiagram.io/ and using Laravel

**@lidonation** · 0 upvotes

> Exactly what we've been looking for for an upcoming project.

**@hackhit** · 0 upvotes

> I have been using it for a long time and I have always found it quite practical. Its model works for me in medium-impact projects.

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