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Labs64/laravel-boilerplate
Laravel Boilerplate / Starter Kit with Gentelella Admin Theme
A Laravel 8 starter kit bundled with the Gentelella admin theme, providing auth scaffolding, role-based access control, social login, and a Docker dev environment. Aimed at developers who want a pre-wired admin panel foundation rather than building one from scratch. It's a reasonable starting point but shows its age.
- Docker setup is genuinely useful and includes nginx, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, and mailhog as optional utils — saves real setup time for a new project
- Auth coverage is solid: registration flow with email confirmation, social login via Socialite, reCAPTCHA, and role/permission seeders are all wired up out of the box
- The ToJs and Meta blade directive helpers are small but practical quality-of-life additions that aren't just copied from the default Laravel install
- AWS S3, multiple DB drivers, Google Analytics, and log viewer are pre-configured rather than just listed as dependencies — the config files are actually there
- Pinned to Laravel 8 and PHP 7.x — Laravel is currently at 11.x, meaning you're immediately looking at a major upgrade before going anywhere near production
- Bootstrap 3 and Font Awesome 4 are both end-of-life; Bootstrap 3 in 2024 is a maintenance burden from day one, especially with Vue 2 also being EOL
- Test coverage is essentially non-existent — two placeholder ExampleTest files that do nothing, so you get zero confidence when you start modifying the auth flows
- NetLicensing integration is baked in as a first-class feature with its own middleware, models, and migrations — if you don't need it, you're ripping out someone else's commercial licensing system before writing your first line of business logic