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cjmellor/starter-kit
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An opinionated starter kit based off the official Laravel starter kit for Livewire.

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Laravel (Opionionated) Starter Kit
==================================

[](#laravel-opionionated-starter-kit)

A modern Laravel starter kit with opinionated defaults and essential tooling for rapid application development.

This starter kit is based off the **Livewire** with **Volt** starter kit.

Getting Started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

Install via the Laravel installer

```
laravel new  --using=cjmellor/starter-kit

```

Differences
-----------

[](#differences)

### Development Tools & Configuration

[](#development-tools--configuration)

- Added Rector with Laravel extension for automated PHP refactoring
- Configured Prettier for consistent code formatting
- Added Pint configuration for Laravel-specific PHP code styling
- Updated PHP version requirement to ^8.4
- Implemented GitHub Actions workflows for linting and testing

### Laravel Customizations

[](#laravel-customizations)

- Enhanced AppServiceProvider with opinionated Laravel defaults:
    - Configured query logging for local development
    - Set up model strictness and prevention of lazy loading
    - Added performance optimization settings

Features
--------

[](#features)

### Authorization

[](#authorization)

During the installation process, you'll be prompted to include Authorization. When selected, this option automatically sets up a comprehensive authentication structure including:

- Role and Permission models with migrations
- Basic role assignments (Owner, Member)

###  Health Score

17

—

LowBetter than 6% of packages

Maintenance42

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity13

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/801039?v=4)[cmellor](/maintainers/cmellor)[@cmellor](https://github.com/cmellor)

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Top Contributors

[![cjmellor](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1848476?v=4)](https://github.com/cjmellor "cjmellor (30 commits)")

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