Refactor widgets + third-party widgets

[danilopolani]

Hello,
is there a way currently to create a 3rd party widget? I found out the Filament::registerWidget method but unfortunately it will look through the App/Widgets folder and other paths defined in the configuration (I guess?), so I got no lucky with that.

Maybe would be easier to manage widgets like this? With this configuration users would be able to remove undesired widgets (without a disable flag), re-order them easily and create a more flexible layout.

config/filament.php

'widgets' => [
	// Auto row (2 cols)
	[
		\Filament\Widgets\Welcome::class,
		\Filament\Widgets\Info::class,
	],

	// Full row
	\ThirdParty\Widgets\ThirdPartyWidget::class,
],

What do you think? If that works to you I could try to draft a PR, although I don't know how much time I have to work on it

[ryangjchandler]

@danilopolani registerWidget will register any custom widgets outside of the app/Filament/Widgets directory, you need to call it inside of a Service Provider.

[danilopolani]

Got it finally, I had to register the component to Livewire too:

PackageServiceProvider.php

use Package\Http\Livewire\MyWidget;

public function boot()
{
        Livewire::component('my-widget', MyWidget::class);
        Filament::registerWidget(MyWidget::class);
}

I don't know if we're supposed to register the livewire component too, but I think so, because without that it just returns the error Unable to find component: [] from Livewire (basically can't find the alias? Also after a php artisan livewire:discover)

[ryangjchandler]

@danilopolani I'll open a pull request tomorrow to ease this process. I'd also recommend using the PluginServiceProvider as your base class (extend it) since it has some helpers for registering things.

class PackageServiceProvider extends PluginServiceProvider
{
    protected $widgets = [
        MyWidget::class,
    ];
}

I'll open a PR so that you also don't need to manually register your Livewire component.

[danilopolani]

That's huge, thank you! For the quick answers too on Sunday haha.