Testing & developer experience

payload utilities

Developer helpers for Payload: document traversal, flattening, transformation and fully populated type generation

610/wk15v3

payload cli

Command-line access to Payload collections and globals through the Local API, aimed at AI agents and developers

570/wk13v3

payload schema

Define Payload field validation once and reuse it as Payload fields and Zod schemas

570/wk2v3

payload dev tools

Floating dev toolbar, /dev pages and an app snapshot for AI agents in Payload projects on Next.js

560/wk18v3

payload plugin tooling

Shared lint, format, TypeScript, build, test and CI config for building Payload plugins

550/wk0v4

payload field factories

Typed factory functions for writing Payload field configs more concisely

502/wk0v3

payload dry run

Test create operations with full validation and hooks, then roll back so nothing is saved

470/wk0v3

payload utilities

Helper functions for Payload: compose field validators, extract IDs and resolve documents

436/wk0v3

payload repository

Typed repository and operations classes wrapping Payload's Local API with optional argument transformers

430/wk0v3

payload integration test utils

Vitest helpers that give integration tests a Payload Local API instance backed by a containerized database

390/wk0v3

payload plugin resolve alias

Shorthand helper to add webpack aliases that exclude server-only modules from the Payload admin bundle

340/wk7v1

payload field validators

Helper functions for writing validation handlers on Payload collection fields

330/wk4v3

payload arch skill

Claude Code skill enforcing a route, controller, service and store architecture in Payload projects

322v?

cli

Command-line tool for initializing projects and managing Payload plugins and collections

200/wk4v?

payload plugin template

Starter template for building Payload v3 plugins with a dev app, tests and Docker support

197v3

plugin template

Blank starter template for building a Payload plugin in TypeScript

052v2