Laravel Starter (based on Laravel 10.x)

Laravel Starter is a Laravel 10.x based simple starter project. Most of the commonly needed features of an application like Authentication, Authorisation, User 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 projects.

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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.

Appplication 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.

User: [email protected]
Pass: secret

User: [email protected]
Pass: secret

Demo Data

If you want to test the application on your local machine with additional demo data you may use the following command.

php artisan starter:insert-demo-data --fresh

There are options to truncate the posts, categories, tags, and comments tables and insert new demo data.

--fresh option will truncate the tables, without this command new set of data will be inserted.

php artisan starter:insert-demo-data --fresh

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.

Create New module

To create a project use the following command, you have repalce the MODULE_NAME with the name of the module.

php artisan module:build MODULE_NAME

You may want to use --force option to overwrite the existing module. if you use this option, it will replace all the exisitng files with the defalut stub files.

php artisan module:build MODULE_NAME --force

Clear All Cache

composer clear-all

this is a shortcut command clear all cache including config, route, and more

Code Style Fix

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

composer pint

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 build 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 easy now
• User Profile with Avatar
  • Separate User Profile table
• Role-Permissions for Users
• Dynamic Menu System
• Language Switcher
• Localization enabled across the project
• Backend Theme
  • Bootstrap 5, CoreUI
  • Fontawesome 6
• Frontend Theme
  • Tailwind
  • Fontawesome 6
• Article Module
  • Posts
  • Categories
  • Tags
  • Comments
  • wysiwyg editor
  • File browser
• Application Settings
• External Libraries
  • Bootstrap 5
  • Fontawesome 6
  • CoreUI
  • Tailwind
  • Datatables
  • Select2
  • Date Time Picker
• Backup (Source, Files, Database as Zip)
• Log Viewer
• Notification
  • Dashboard and details view

User Guide

Installation

Follow the steps mentioned below to install and run the project. You may find more details about the installation in Installation Wiki.

1. Clone or download the repository
2. Go to the project directory and run composer install
3. Create .env file by copying the .env.example. You may use the command to do that cp .env.example .env
4. Update the database name and credentials in .env file
5. Run the command to generate application key php artisan key:generate
6. Run the command php artisan migrate --seed
7. Link storage directory: php artisan storage:link
8. You may create a virtualhost entry to access the application or run php artisan serve from the project root and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000

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

php artisan cache:forget spatie.permission.cache

Docker and Laravel Sail

This project is configured with Laravel Sail (https://laravel.com/docs/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

Icons

FontAwesome & CoreUI Icons, two different font icon library is installed for the Backend theme and only FontAwesome for the Frontend. For both of the cases, we used the free version. You may install the pro version separately for your project.

• FontAwesome - https://fontawesome.com

Screenshots

Home Page

Login Page

Posts Page

Backend Dashboard