CMS like modular starter application project built with Laravel 8

Desember 29, 2020

Candil Code - Laravel Starter is a Laravel 8.x based simple starter project. It can be used to build all type of applications. Most of the commonly needed features like Authentication, Application Backend, Backup, Logviewer are available here. It is modular, so you can use this project as a base and build your own modules. You can use the same module in any of the Laravel Starter based projects. New features and functionalities are being added on a regular basis.

Custom Commands Laravel Starter

We have created a number of custom commands for the project. The commands are listed below with a brief about the use of it.

Clear All Cache

composer clear-all

this is a shortcut command clear all cache including config, route and more

Code Style Fix

composer fix-cs

apply the code style fix by this command.

Features Laravel Starter

The Laravel Starter comes with a number of features which are the most common in almost all the applications. It is a template project which means it is intended to build in a way that it can be used for other projects.

It is a modular application, and a number of modules are installed by default. It will be helpful to use it as a base for the future applications.

Admin feature and public views are completely separated as Backend and Frontend namespace.

Major feature are developed as Modules. Module like Posts, Comments, Tags are separated from the core features like User, Role, Permission.

It is a modular application, and a number of modules are installed by default. It will be helpful to use it as a base for the future applications.

Admin feature and public views are completely separated as Backend and Frontend namespace.

Major feature are developed as Modules. Module like Posts, Comments, Tags are separated from the core features like User, Role, Permission

Core Features

User Authentication
Social Login

Google
Facebook
Github
Build in a way adding more is much easy now

User Profile with Avatar

Separate User Profile table

Role-Permissions for Users
Dynamic Menu System
Language Switcher
Localization enable across the porject
Backend Theme

Bootstrap 4, CoreUI
Fontawesome 5

Frontend Theme

Bootstrap 4, Impact Design Kit
Fontawesome 5

Article Module

Posts
Categories
Tags
Comments
wysiwyg editor
File browser

Application Settings
External Libraries

Bootstrap 4
Fontawesome 5
CoreUI
Impact Design Kit
Datatables
Select2
Date Time Picker

Backup (Source, Files, Database as Zip)
Log Viewer
Notification

Dashboard and details view

RSS Feed

Installation Laravel Starter

Follow the steps mentioned below to install and run the project.

Clone or download the repository
Go to the project directory and run composer install
Create .env file by copying the .env.example. You may use the command to do that cp .env.example .env
Update the database name and credentials in .env file
Run the command php artisan migrate --seed
Link storage directory: php artisan storage:link
You may create a virtualhost entry to access the application or run php artisan serve from the project root and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000

After creating the new permissions use the following commands to update cashed permissions.

php artisan cache:forget spatie.permission.cache

Icons

FontAwesome & CoreUI Icons, two different font icon library is installed for the Backend theme and only FontAwesome for the Frontend. For both of the cases we used the free version. You may install the pro version separately for your own project.