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filamentphp/filament
A powerful open-source UI framework for Laravel • Build and ship apps & admin panels fast with Livewire
Filament is a Laravel admin panel and app-building framework built on the TALL stack (Tailwind, Alpine.js, Livewire, Laravel). It gives you tables, forms, infolists, dashboards, and action modals as a coherent system rather than a grab-bag of components. Aimed at Laravel developers who need internal tools or admin panels without writing frontend code.
The component API is genuinely well-designed — chaining methods like `TextColumn::make('email')->searchable()->sortable()->copyable()` reads cleanly and covers 90% of cases without fighting the framework. Multi-tenancy is a first-class concept, not bolted on. The plugin ecosystem is large and most of it is actively maintained. The monorepo structure and CI setup (PHPStan, automated translation sync, monorepo splits) signal serious engineering discipline for a PHP project.
Livewire's full-page reload model means complex UIs can feel sluggish once you have deeply nested repeaters or large datasets — there's no escaping the wire:model overhead. Customizing beyond the provided components often means Blade component overrides and digging through multiple inheritance layers, which gets messy fast. Upgrading between major versions (v2 → v3 → v4) has historically been painful and not well-automated. If your app isn't Laravel-first, none of this is usable — the coupling to Laravel conventions is total.