Overview

Laravel Quickstart is a boilerplate for Laravel applications that comes preinstalled and configured with typical packages to create a full-fledged application. It aims to provide a minimal setup while including useful features like separate views and routes for frontend and backend, user management with Laravel Fortify package, log viewer, SEO tags implementation, and more.

Features

• Separate directories for frontend and backend views, routes, and controllers
• Utilizes TailwindCSSv3 as the frontend framework
• Ready-made pages for Authentication/User Management/Roles/Permission Management/Log-viewer/Notifications Management
• User management with Laravel Fortify package, including social login with Socialite and API authentication with Laravel Sanctum
• Integrated log viewer and Laravel Debugbar for development purposes
• Preconfigured BrowserSync for automatic browser refresh during development
• User impersonation using Laravel Impersonate
• UUID generator for unique identifiers
• Breadcrumbs implementation using Laravel Breadcrumbs
• Icons library using Laravel-Icons
• Event listeners implementation for various user events
• Multiple helper functions
• Useful Model Traits
• User activity log
• Multilingual scaffolding
• User timezone implementation
• User and Roles/Permission factories and seeders
• Least usage of JavaScript (no jQuery) in favor of working with AlpineJS
• Utilizes SEO tags for OpenGraph Facebook and Twitter
• Progressive Web App (PWA) implementation out of the box
• Laravel blade components to simplify development

Installation

1. Download Laravel Quickstart:

   • Choose your preferred method: download the zipped archive or clone from GitHub using the command git clone https://github.com/developervijay7/laravel-quickstart.git

2. Setup .env file:

   • Rename the .env.example file in the root of the project to .env
   • Open the .env file in your preferred text editor and add your database credentials and mail configuration

3. Install PHP dependencies:

   • Make sure you have Composer installed on your operating system
   • Run the command composer install in your Terminal/Windows Command Prompt/Windows PowerShell/Git Bash to install the PHP dependencies

4. Generate application keys:

   • Set the APP_KEY in your .env file by running the command php artisan key:generate

5. Migrate the database:

   • Run the command php artisan migrate to migrate the database

Summary

Laravel Quickstart is a boilerplate for Laravel applications that aims to provide a minimal yet feature-rich setup. It includes useful packages and configurations for frontend and backend development, user management, log viewing, SEO implementation, and more. The installation process is straightforward and well-documented.