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LaravelDaily/Larastarters
Larastarters is a Laravel package that bolts a pre-built admin UI theme onto a fresh Breeze or Laravel UI installation via an artisan command. It targets developers who want to skip the hour of copy-pasting dashboard HTML and get straight to building features. The seven supported themes (Windmill, NotusJS, AdminLTE, CoreUI, and others) cover both Tailwind and Bootstrap stacks.
The install flow is genuinely clean — one composer require, one artisan command, pick a theme, done. Shipping both Breeze (Tailwind/Inertia/Vue) and Laravel UI (Bootstrap/Blade) variants means it covers the two most common Laravel setups without forcing a stack choice. The stubs approach is honest: it writes files into your project and gets out of the way, so you're not inheriting a package dependency at runtime. Vendor-bundled font and JS assets (AdminLTE, CoreUI) mean the scaffolding works offline without an NPM step.
Last push was March 2024 and the themes themselves (AdminLTE 4, Notus JS) are older still — you're starting a new project with UI debt already baked in. The warning that it must only be run on a blank project is a real constraint: there's no dry-run, no rollback, and the install freely overwrites routes and controllers, so one misfire on a non-blank project can be painful. The sample scaffolding is thin — a users list and a profile form — which means you'll outgrow the provided structure almost immediately and start fighting the theme's CSS conventions. No tests, no CI, no upgrade path documented between theme versions.