legecha/laces

Opinionated enhancements to the official Laravel starter kit for Livewire.

v1.0.0 2025-06-12 20:00 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2
• laravel/framework: ^12.0
• laravel/tinker: ^2.10.1
• livewire/flux: ^2.1.1
• livewire/flux-pro: ^2.1
• livewire/volt: ^1.7.0

Requires (Dev)

• fakerphp/faker: ^1.23
• laravel/pail: ^1.2.2
• laravel/pint: ^1.18
• laravel/sail: ^1.41
• mockery/mockery: ^1.6
• nunomaduro/collision: ^8.6
• pestphp/pest: ^3.8
• pestphp/pest-plugin-laravel: ^3.2
• tightenco/duster: ^3.2

MIT

• framework
• laravel

README

An opinionated custom start kit for Laravel projects, building on the official Laravel starter kit with Livewire and Flux UI

This repository is an alternative starting point to the Laravel starter kit that uses Livewire with Flux UI. This is a great starting point, but I was bored of performing the same actions when starting new projects so decided to create this custom starter kit, and now offer it to anyone else who might find it useful.

The goal for this custom starter kit is to be an up-to-date version of the offical starter kit with the below enhancements.

Check out the To Do section to see my plans for this project, including automating the changes programatically instead of manually.

Features

• Uses Livewire with clases, not Volt
• Uses Pest for testing
• Removes GitHub workflows
• Adds APP_TIMEZONE to app config
• Declare strict_types on all PHP files
• Use RefreshDatabase trait for both Unit and Feature tests
  • And create unit and feature testing groups respectively
• Installs Tighten Duster
  • Adds declare_strict_types PHP CS Fixer Rule
  • Adds Composer fix and lint commands to call Duster
• Installs Prettier with Tailwind and Blade support
  • Adds NPM format command to call prettier
• Adds Flux UI Pro
• Enforce better password defaults (minimum 10 chars, mixed case, symbols and numbers)
  • Update all tests and user seeder to reflect this
• Update app layout to allow guests
• Remove Laravel welcome page and use app layout for homepage

Installation

Create a new project using this repos as your starter kit:

laravel new my-app --using=legecha/laces

Note: During install you'll be asked for your user/pass (email and key) for Flux UI Pro, which you can get from the Flux UI Dashboard.

To Do

• Create scripts to automate the conversion of a standard starter kit to a release candidate with all the features set up and ready to go.

Contribute

As I said, this is a fairly opinionated set of changes to an official starter kit, but (in my opinion :D) they are in alignment with cool and clever people who've contributed ideas and standards to Laravel in the past, that become popular official features. So with that in mind, I certainly welcome your opinion, ideas and pull requests!