Nova Resources

Nova resource classes inside modules are discovered and registered during Nova's serving event. This means they only load when someone accesses the Nova admin panel, not on every application request.

Classes extending Laravel\Nova\Actions\ActionResource are automatically excluded from discovery, since those are internal to Nova's action system.

Like Livewire and Filament, this feature is conditional. If Nova isn't installed, the package skips it entirely.

'nova-resources' => [
    'active' => true,
    'patterns' => [
        '*/Nova',
    ],
],

Modules/Blog/
└── Nova/
    ├── Post.php
    └── Category.php

Modules/Shop/
└── Nova/
    ├── Product.php
    └── Order.php

Module Nova resources are standard Nova resource classes. The only difference is the namespace:

namespace Modules\Blog\Nova;

use Laravel\Nova\Resource;
use Laravel\Nova\Fields\ID;
use Laravel\Nova\Fields\Text;
use Laravel\Nova\Fields\Markdown;
use Laravel\Nova\Http\Requests\NovaRequest;
use Modules\Blog\Models\Post;

class Post extends Resource
{
    public static $model = Post::class;

    public static $title = 'title';

    public static $search = ['id', 'title'];

    public function fields(NovaRequest $request): array
    {
        return [
            ID::make()->sortable(),
            Text::make('Title')->sortable()->rules('required'),
            Markdown::make('Body')->rules('required'),
        ];
    }
}

The resource appears in the Nova sidebar alongside your application's resources. No manual registration needed.

Nova resources in modules work with the Models & Factories and Policies features. A Modules\Blog\Nova\Post resource pointing to Modules\Blog\Models\Post will automatically find Modules\Blog\Policies\PostPolicy for authorization.

Nova resources are registered inside a Nova::serving() callback. They don't load during normal web requests or Artisan commands, only when Nova's routes are being served. This keeps the overhead at zero for non-Nova requests.

Set 'nova-resources.active' => false to disable discovery. Adjust 'nova-resources.patterns' if your Nova resources live in a different directory.