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A modern, production-ready Laravel starter kit featuring Livewire Volt and Mary UI. Build beautiful web applications with a complete authentication system, user management, and developer-friendly tooling.

✨ Features

🎨 Frontend Stack

Livewire 3.x with Volt for reactive single-file components
Mary UI 2.x - Beautiful, accessible UI components
Tailwind CSS 4.x + DaisyUI for styling
Blade Hero and Fontawesome icons integration
Vite for lightning-fast asset bundling

🔐 Authentication & User Management

Complete authentication system (login, registration, password reset)
Email verification with resend functionality
Password confirmation for sensitive operations
User profile management with avatar uploads
User management dashboard with full CRUD operations
User status management (Active, Inactive, Suspended)
Advanced filtering and search capabilities
Avatar management with automatic cleanup

🏗️ Architecture & Developer Experience

Laravel 12.x with PHP 8.2+ support
SQLite database by default (easy local setup)
Pest testing framework with 77+ comprehensive tests
Code quality tools: Pint (formatting), Rector (refactoring)
Debugging tools: LaraDumps, Laravel Pail
Development workflow with Concurrently for multi-process dev server

🧪 Testing Coverage

77 tests with 218 assertions
Complete test coverage for authentication flows
User management CRUD operations testing
File upload and avatar management testing
Form validation and error handling
Database cleanup and file storage testing

📁 File Management

Avatar upload with cropping support (Cropper.js)
Automatic file cleanup on user deletion
File validation (type, size)
Storage testing with fake disks

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

PHP 8.2+
Node.js 18+
Composer
SQLite (included with PHP)

Installation

# Install via Laravel Installer
laravel new my-app --using=lauroguedes/mary-ui-starter-kit

# or Composer
composer create-project lauroguedes/mary-ui-starter-kit my-app

# (Optional) Generate fake data for testing
php artisan db:seed

# Default user
user: test@user.com
pw: secret

Clone the repository manually:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/lauroguedes/mary-ui-starter-kit
cd mary-ui-starter-kit

# Install PHP dependencies
composer install

# Copy environment file and generate app key
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

# Set up the database
php artisan migrate --seed

# Install frontend dependencies
npm install
# or if you use Yarn
yarn

# Run the development server
php artisan serve
# In a separate terminal
npm run dev
# or
yarn dev

Development Workflow

For an enhanced development experience with hot reloading:

# Start all development services (server, queue, logs, vite)
composer dev

Visit http://localhost:8000 to view your application.

This runs:

Laravel development server
Queue worker
Log monitoring (Pail)
Vite dev server with hot reload

🧪 Testing

Run the comprehensive test suite:

# Run all tests
./vendor/bin/pest

# Run with coverage
./vendor/bin/pest --coverage

🔧 Customization

Key environment variables for customization. Change the APP_LAYOUT to sidebar or header and LOGIN_LAYOUT to card, simple, or split:

# Appearance settings
APP_LAYOUT=
LOGIN_LAYOUT=

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

Development Setup

Fork the repository
Create a feature branch: git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature
Make your changes and add tests
Run the test suite: ./vendor/bin/pest
Commit your changes: git commit -m 'Add amazing feature'
Push to the branch: git push origin feature/amazing-feature
Open a Pull Request

Code Quality

We maintain high code quality standards:

# Format code
./vendor/bin/pint

# Refactor code
./vendor/bin/rector

# Run tests
./vendor/bin/pest

📋 Roadmap

Google Auth Provider
Role-based permissions system
Advanced Log and Audit
Multi-tenant support
Advanced notification system
Dashboard analytics
API integration with Laravel Sanctum

🆘 Support

Documentation: Mary UI Docs
Issues: GitHub Issues

📝 License

This project is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Built with ❤️ by Lauro Guedes

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