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A Laravel starter kit with Livewire, Flux UI, Fortify authentication, and Horizon queue management.

What's Included

• Laravel 12 - The latest Laravel framework
• Livewire 4 - Full-stack framework for Laravel
• Flux UI - Tailwind CSS component library for Livewire
• Laravel Fortify - Headless authentication backend
• Laravel Horizon - Redis queue dashboard
• Tailwind CSS 4 - Utility-first CSS framework
• Pest - Testing framework
• Pint - Code style fixer
• Larastan - Static analysis

Installation

Using the Laravel Installer

laravel new my-app --using=github:andybarilla/laravel-starter-kit

After installation, install frontend dependencies and build assets:

cd my-app
npm install
npm run build

Manual Installation

git clone https://github.com/andybarilla/laravel-starter-kit.git my-app
cd my-app
composer install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
touch database/database.sqlite
php artisan migrate
npm install
npm run build

Development

Start the development server with all services:

composer run dev

This runs concurrently:

• Laravel development server
• Queue worker
• Pail log viewer
• Vite dev server

Or run services individually:

php artisan serve      # Laravel server
npm run dev            # Vite dev server
php artisan queue:work # Queue worker

Testing

php artisan test

Code Quality

# Fix code style
composer run lint

# Static analysis
./vendor/bin/phpstan analyse

Horizon (Queue Dashboard)

Horizon requires Redis. Configure your Redis connection in .env:

QUEUE_CONNECTION=redis
REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PORT=6379

Access the dashboard at /horizon.

License

MIT