⚡ Laravel 12 Starter Kit

A minimal yet powerful Laravel 12 starter kit with sensible defaults to help you build fast, secure, and maintainable applications.

This project is currently under active development.

🚧 Todo

• Add fluent classname builder and merger
• Use Volt for Livewire components

🛠️ Stack

• Laravel 12 - with essential defaults
• Tailwind 4 - and custom colors, fonts and config
• Livewire 3 - includes AlpineJS

🤏🏻 Minimal

• Does not include authentication pages (login, register, etc)

✨ Features

🔧 Code Quality

• Preconfigured with Laravel Pint, PHPStan and Rector for automatic formatting, type checking and refactoring.
• Run composer prepare to fix code issues in one single command.

📦 Eloquent Enhancements

• Strict Mode Enabled
  • 👉 Read more about Strict Mode
• Automatic Eager Loading
  • 👉 Read more about Eager Loading

🎨 Styling and Theme

• Noto Font Family: - includes Sans, Serif, and Mono
  • 👉 Check Noto Font Family
• Blade Icons: includes Fluent UI System icons
  • 👉 Search Fluent UI System
• Custom Color Palette: extended Tailwind color palette

🧩 Blade Layouts

• <x-layouts.html />: A base layout with minimal HTML, default scripts, and styles for rapid prototyping.
  • 👉 todo: add link

💯 Testing Improvements

• Database Refreshing: Refreshes the database after a test
  • 👉 Read more about Refresh Database
• No External Requests: Prevents outbound HTTP requests during testing using Laravel’s HTTP fake.
  • 👉 todo: add link
• Laravel Debugbar: Integrated for better insight during local development.
  • 👉 todo: add link

🔒 Security Additions

• Forced HTTPS: All URLs are automatically HTTPS in production.
  • 👉 todo: add link
• Safe Console Commands: Blocks destructive Artisan commands in production environments.
  • 👉 todo: add link

🚀 Performance Optimizations

• Vite Prefetching: Enables aggressive prefetching for faster navigation.
  • 👉 todo: add link
• Immutable Dates: Uses CarbonImmutable to avoid unintentional date mutations.
  • 👉 todo: add link
• Named Root Route: Root route is named home for clarity and consistency.
  • 👉 todo: add link
• Centralized Config: Includes a custom essentials.php config file for managing core app settings.
  • 👉 todo: add link