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Laravel Starter (based on Laravel 13.x)

Laravel Starter is a Laravel 13.x based simple starter project. Most of the commonly needed features of an application like Authentication, Authorisation, Users and Role management, Application Backend, Backup, Log viewer are available here. It is modular, so you may use this project as a base and build your own modules. A module can be used in any Laravel Starter based project. Here Frontend and Backend are completely separated with separate routes, controllers, and themes as well.

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Application Demo

Check the following demo project. It is just a straight installation of the project without any modification.

Demo URL: https://laravel.nasirkhn.com

You may use the following account credentials to access the application backend.

Custom Commands

We have created a number of custom commands for the project. The commands are listed below with a brief about their use of it.

Install / Setup

See the canonical Installation section below for the full setup flow and all supported options for php artisan starter:install.

Update

After pulling changes from the repository, run:

This runs composer update, checks for new module migrations, runs outstanding migrations, and clears all caches.

Create New Module

To create a module use the following command, replacing MODULE_NAME with the name of your module.

You may want to use the --force option to overwrite an existing module. If you use this option, it will replace all the existing files with the default stub files.

Clear All Cache

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This clears application caches including config, route, view, and permission cache. If you prefer Composer scripts, composer clear-all is also available.

Code Style Fix

We are now using Laravel Pint to make the code style stay as clean and consistent as the Laravel Framework. Use the following command to apply CS-Fix.

Along with Laravel Pint, we are using prettier to format the blade templates. You can install the prettier extension in your favorite editor. The following command will format the blade templates.

npm is the supported package manager for this project. Avoid mixing npm and yarn lockfiles on the same checkout, especially on Windows, because native packages such as esbuild and Tailwind's platform binaries can fail to resolve or unlink cleanly after a mixed install.

If you are intentionally using yarn, remove the existing install state first so Yarn can rebuild it from scratch.

Role - Permissions

Several custom commands are available to add and update role-permissions. Please read the Role - Permission Wiki page, where you will find the list of commands with examples.

Features

The Laravel Starter comes with several features which are the most common in almost all applications. It is a template project which means it is intended to be built in a way that it can be used for other projects.

It is a modular application, and some modules are installed by default. It will be helpful to use it as a base for future applications.

• Admin feature and public views are completely separated as Backend and Frontend namespace.
• Major features are developed as Modules. A module like Posts, Comments, and Tags are separated from the core features like User, Role, Permission

Core Features

• User Authentication
• Social Login
  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Github
  • Build in a way adding more is much easier now
• User Profile with Avatar
• Role-Permissions for Users
• Dynamic Menu System
• Language Switcher
• Localization enabled across the project
• Backend Theme
  • Bootstrap 5, CoreUI
  • Fontawesome 6
  • Dark Mode
• Frontend Theme
  • Tailwind
  • Fontawesome 6
  • Dark Mode
• Article Module
  • Posts
  • Categories
  • Tags
  • Comments
  • WYSIWYG editor (laravel-jodit)
  • File browser
• Application Settings
• External Libraries
  • Bootstrap 5
  • Fontawesome 6
  • CoreUI
  • Tailwind
  • Datatables
  • Select2
  • Date Time Picker
  • Jodit WYSIWYG Editor
• Backup (Source, Files, Database as Zip)
• Log Viewer
• Notification
  • Dashboard and details view

Companion Packages

Laravel Starter is built on top of a set of focused, reusable packages that are also available independently for any Laravel application.

User Guide

Installation

This is the single source of truth for installing Laravel Starter from a fresh checkout. You may find more background in the Installation Wiki.

From GitHub Template (recommended)

If you created a new repository from this GitHub template, or cloned it directly:

Or as a single shortcut after composer install:

For a true one-liner from a fresh clone, convenience scripts are included:

Both scripts run composer install and then launch php artisan starter:install. Pass any starter:install flags through, e.g. bash setup.sh --demo.

The setup wizard will guide you through environment configuration, database selection, migrations, seeding, and building frontend assets. When finished it prints the app URL and default login credentials.

Available options:

If you only need to rerun cache clearing after setup, use:

Via Composer create-project

This runs migrations automatically. Afterwards run the setup wizard to seed and build assets:

After creating the new permissions use the following commands to update cached permissions.

php artisan cache:forget spatie.permission.cache

Database Seeding

Two seeder categories are available:

• Essential (always run): users, roles, permissions, menu — AuthTableSeeder, MenuDatabaseSeeder
• Dummy data (optional): posts, categories, tags — disabled via SEED_DUMMY_DATA=false in .env

For production, set SEED_DUMMY_DATA=false and use --force:

Docker and Laravel Sail

This project is configured with Laravel Sail. You can use all the docker functionalities here. To install using docker and sail:

1. Clone or download the repository
2. Go to the project directory and run composer install
3. Create .env file by copying the .env-sail. You may use the command to do that cp .env-sail .env
4. Update the database name and credentials in .env file
5. Run the command sail up (consider adding this to your alias: alias sail='[ -f sail ] && sh sail || sh vendor/bin/sail')
6. Run the command sail artisan migrate --seed
7. Link storage directory: sail artisan storage:link
8. Since Sail is already up, you can just visit http://localhost:80

Reporting a Vulnerability

If you discover any security-related issues, please send an e-mail to Nasir Khan Saikat via [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

Screenshots

Home Page

Login Page

Posts Page

Backend Dashboard