README

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About this Starter Pack

It is aimed at helping students and beginners to quickly set up a Laravel development environment that allows for learning the basics without the need to configure everything from scratch.

Changes from the original Laravel repository

It provides a pre-configured environment with some opinionated settings and packages for the educational context. Initial customisation was done based on Laravel version 12.x. (12.37.0 on November 9th, 2025). Updated to Laravel 13.x (13.7 on May 4th, 2026), including now also Laravel Boost.

• Added barryvdh/laravel-debugbar for debug info in the browser
• Altered .env.example for local development (SQLite database, debug mode on, cache and session set to file)
• Added roave/security-advisories to prevent installation of packages with known security issues
• Added laravel/boost for AI assisted code generation
• Used laravel/breeze for authentication scaffolding with Blade templates (but moved all of the component views to a components.breeze subfolder for better organization)
• Replaced vite and related front-end dependencies by CDN includes of Tailwind CSS and Alpine JS to keep things simple
• Replaced PHP Unit by Pest PHP for testing, kept basic example tests
• Some other small tweaks in configuration files, routes, controller, and view organisation to better reflect the educational purpose (rigid structure)

Everything that follows below (and the shields in the header) are part of the original Laravel README.md file.

About Laravel

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable and creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel takes the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in many web projects, such as:

• Simple, fast routing engine.
• Powerful dependency injection container.
• Multiple back-ends for session and cache storage.
• Expressive, intuitive database ORM.
• Database agnostic schema migrations.
• Robust background job processing.
• Real-time event broadcasting.

Laravel is accessible, powerful, and provides tools required for large, robust applications.

Learning Laravel

Laravel has the most extensive and thorough documentation and video tutorial library of all modern web application frameworks, making it a breeze to get started with the framework.

In addition, Laracasts contains thousands of video tutorials on a range of topics including Laravel, modern PHP, unit testing, and JavaScript. Boost your skills by digging into our comprehensive video library.

You can also watch bite-sized lessons with real-world projects on Laravel Learn, where you will be guided through building a Laravel application from scratch while learning PHP fundamentals.

Agentic Development

Laravel's predictable structure and conventions make it ideal for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Install Laravel Boost to supercharge your AI workflow:

composer require laravel/boost --dev

php artisan boost:install

Boost provides your agent 15+ tools and skills that help agents build Laravel applications while following best practices.

Contributing

Thank you for considering contributing to the Laravel framework! The contribution guide can be found in the Laravel documentation.

Code of Conduct

In order to ensure that the Laravel community is welcoming to all, please review and abide by the Code of Conduct.

Security Vulnerabilities

If you discover a security vulnerability within Laravel, please send an e-mail to Taylor Otwell via taylor@laravel.com. All security vulnerabilities will be promptly addressed.

License

The Laravel framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.