[Feature]: Detects models outside `\app\Models`

[sensasi-delight]

Feature Description

I’m using the Laravel VS Code extension, and notices it fails to generate IDE helpers for models located outside the default app/Models directory.

My project uses nWidart/laravel-modules, where models live under:

/Modules/<module-name>/app/Models

The extension only picks up models from app/Models, ignoring all module-scoped models entirely. As a result, autocompletion and type inference are incomplete and inconsistent.

Please update the helper generation logic so it can detect models in modular folder structures like those created by nWidart/laravel-modules.

This affects developer experience significantly—thanks for looking into it.

[dicktornfeldt]

Similar issue here I think. I have a project where the structure is as this to reach the model: app/Domain/User/Entity/User.php and im getting spammed with error message:

Error: __VSCODE_LARAVEL_START_OUTPUT__
   Symfony\Component\Finder\Exception\DirectoryNotFoundException 

  The "/..../project/app/Models" directory does not exist.

  at vendor/symfony/finder/Finder.php:646
    642▕             } elseif ($glob = glob($dir, (\defined('GLOB_BRACE') ? \GLOB_BRACE : 0) | \GLOB_ONLYDIR | \GLOB_NOSORT)) {
    643▕                 sort($glob);
    644▕                 $resolvedDirs[] = array_map($this->normalizeDir(...), $glob);
    645▕             } else {
  ➜ 646▕                 throw new DirectoryNotFoundException(\sprintf('The "%s" directory does not exist.', $dir));
    647▕             }
    648▕         }
    649▕ 
    650▕         $this->dirs = array_merge($this->dirs, ...$resolvedDirs);

[TitasGailius]

@dicktornfeldt thanks for reporting this.

There was an oversight in #335, which was merged yesterday.

We've patched the issue, and we plan to add better support for scanning model files in the project.