# Laravel Truss

> A live database structure viewer for Laravel. Scans your live schema and renders it as a scrollable, zoomable ER diagram inside your app.

Structure only, never data: tables, columns, indexes and foreign keys are read, row contents are never queried or exposed. Requires PHP 8.2+ and Laravel 12+. Source at https://github.com/albertoarena/laravel-truss.

## Getting started

- [Installation](https://trussphp.com/getting-started/installation/): Install Laravel Truss into your application
- [Quick start](https://trussphp.com/getting-started/quick-start/): A tour of the Truss dashboard and its controls

## Guides

- [Accessibility](https://trussphp.com/guides/accessibility/): What of the Truss dashboard is operable without a mouse, how it is tested, and what is not covered yet
- [Authorization](https://trussphp.com/guides/authorization/): Gate access to Truss so it is safe to run in production
- [Focus and filter](https://trussphp.com/guides/focus-and-filter/): Keep large schemas legible with focus mode and filtering
- [Laravel Boost](https://trussphp.com/guides/laravel-boost/): Ship Truss guidelines and a skill straight into a Boost-configured agent, with no MCP server to wire up by hand
- [MCP server](https://trussphp.com/guides/mcp-server/): Let a coding agent query your live schema on demand over the Model Context Protocol
- [Schema diff](https://trussphp.com/guides/schema-diff/): See what changed in your database structure since the last migration
- [Schema doctor](https://trussphp.com/guides/schema-doctor/): Review your database structure for problems, in the terminal, in CI, and in the dashboard
- [Schema export](https://trussphp.com/guides/schema-export/): Export your database structure from the command line for CI, tooling, and version control
- [Theming](https://trussphp.com/guides/theming/): Match the dashboard to your app by defining your own colours and fonts from config
- [Truss as AI context](https://trussphp.com/guides/ai-context/): Hand your real, live database structure to a coding agent as grounding context, so it stops inventing columns

## Reference

- [Commands](https://trussphp.com/reference/commands/): Artisan commands and asset publishing
- [Configuration](https://trussphp.com/reference/configuration/): Every Laravel Truss configuration option
- [Tested applications](https://trussphp.com/reference/tested-applications/): Which real Laravel applications Truss has been installed and run in, which needed a fix first, and which cannot be tested

## Help

- [Frequently asked questions](https://trussphp.com/help/faq/): Short answers to what people ask before installing Laravel Truss: data safety, production use, access control, requirements, databases and connections
- [Troubleshooting](https://trussphp.com/help/troubleshooting/): Common issues and how to resolve them

## Try it

- [Live demo](https://trussphp.com/demo/): The dashboard running against a sample schema, no installation needed
- [Multiple connections demo](https://trussphp.com/demo/multi-connection/): The same dashboard across more than one database connection
- [Draw your own schema](https://trussphp.com/demo/your-schema/): Paste a mysqldump taken with no data, or a Truss JSON export, and see your own tables drawn. Parsed in the browser, never uploaded
- [Theme builder](https://trussphp.com/theme-builder/): Build a palette against a live preview and copy the config it produces
- [Lunar's database structure](https://trussphp.com/demo/apps/lunar/): 67 tables and 83 foreign keys of the open-source Lunar codebase, drawn as an ER diagram. A snapshot taken 02/09/2026 from https://github.com/lunarphp/core, which is MIT licensed. Structure only: no row data is read or shown

## In the wild

- [In the wild](https://trussphp.com/in-the-wild/): What other developers say about Laravel Truss, with a link to every source: coverage, posts by people who installed it, and bugs they reported that shipped as fixes

## Optional

- [Credits](https://trussphp.com/credits/): The tools and people behind Laravel Truss
- [Privacy](https://trussphp.com/privacy/): What this site collects, what it stores in your browser, and why