README

A modern, production-ready Laravel 13 starter kit with a complete development environment and integrated tooling for building robust applications.

Features

Core Stack

• Laravel 13 - Latest Laravel framework with streamlined structure
• PHP 8.4 - Latest PHP version with modern language features
• Tailwind CSS v4 - Latest utility-first CSS framework
• Vite - Lightning-fast frontend build tool

Development Environment

• Lando - Pre-configured local development environment with PHP 8.4, MySQL, and Node 20
• Concurrently Dev Script - Run server, queue worker, logs, and Vite simultaneously with composer run dev

Code Quality & Testing

• Pest 4 - Modern PHP testing framework with browser testing support
  • Type coverage testing with 100% minimum requirement
  • Parallel test execution
  • Code coverage reporting
• Laravel Pint - Opinionated PHP code formatter
• PHPStan/Larastan - Static analysis for catching bugs before runtime
• GitHub Actions - Automated CI/CD pipeline for testing on every push and PR

Developer Experience

• Laravel Ray - Debug tool for local development
• Laravel IDE Helper - Accurate IDE autocompletion
• Bugsnag - Error tracking and monitoring

Quick Start Scripts

• composer setup - Initialize the project (install dependencies, copy .env, generate key, run migrations)
• composer dev - Start all development services concurrently
• composer test - Run full test suite (type coverage, unit tests, linting, static analysis)
• composer lint - Auto-fix code style issues

Getting Started

After cloning, run:

lando start

For development with hot module reloading:

lando composer dev