Laravel Starter Kits List: Official and Community

• Laravel Starter Kits: Official and Community Options for Developers
• Official Laravel Starter Kits
  • 1. Livewire Starter Kit
  • 2. Blank Livewire Starter Kit
  • 3. Vue Starter Kit
  • 4. Blank Vue Starter Kit
  • 5. React Starter Kit
  • 6. Blank React Starter Kit
• Community Laravel Starter Kits
  • 1. LaravelDaily Starter Kit
  • 2. Kaido Kit
  • 3. Filament Jetstream
  • 4. Genesis by DevDojo
  • 5. Larament
  • 6. Tallstarter
  • 7. Larasonic Vue and Larasonic React
  • 8. Fission
  • 9. Fila Starter
  • 10. AI Chat
  • 11. TallStackUI Starter Kit
• Wrapping Up

Laravel Starter Kits: Official and Community Options for Developers

When you start a new Laravel project, a common question is how to bootstrap the frontend stack and basic project structure quickly. Starter kits solve this by giving you a preconfigured stack that matches a specific way of building apps. In this blog post, I grouped the official Laravel starter kits and a curated set of community kits, and explained what each one actually ships with and when it is a good fit.

Official Laravel Starter Kits

These kits are maintained by the Laravel team. They give you modern frontend tooling with tight integration into the current Laravel ecosystem. Each one focuses on a particular frontend approach and uses Vite, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Pest out of the box.

1. Livewire Starter Kit

• Repository: laravel/livewire-starter-kit
• What it provides: A Laravel application preconfigured for Livewire 3, using Flux UI for the component library, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, and Vite. The repository offers alternate branches so you can choose between a Volt based approach or a components first Livewire setup, and there is a WorkOS branch for WorkOS powered authentication.
• Why it helps: You get a Livewire focused stack that already includes Flux UI and a modern build setup, so you can start building interactive, Blade driven interfaces without wiring the tooling and UI layer yourself. The different branches let you adopt Volt or stick with plain Livewire components depending on your preference.

2. Blank Livewire Starter Kit

• Repository: laravel/blank-livewire-starter-kit
• What it provides: A minimal Laravel plus Livewire 3 application that ships without a UI component library or prebuilt screens. It uses Vite, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, and the same basic project layout as the main Livewire starter kit, but leaves design and components to you.
• Why it helps: You get a clean Livewire oriented foundation with modern tooling already in place, while keeping full control over the UI layer and design system.

3. Vue Starter Kit

• Repository: laravel/vue-starter-kit
• What it provides: A Laravel application configured with Inertia and Vue 3 using the Composition API, plus TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, and an opinionated set of Vue components based on shadcn vue.
• Why it helps: You get the Inertia plus Vue stack wired and ready, including a component system and build setup, so you can focus on pages and features instead of bootstrapping Inertia, Vue, and Tailwind from scratch.

4. Blank Vue Starter Kit

• Repository: laravel/blank-vue-starter-kit
• What it provides: A lean Laravel application with Inertia and Vue 3 configured, using TypeScript, Vite, and Tailwind CSS, but without any preselected UI library or complex example screens.
• Why it helps: Ideal if you want the official wiring for Inertia and Vue yet intend to install your own component library or build the UI layer yourself.

5. React Starter Kit

• Repository: laravel/react-starter-kit
• What it provides: A Laravel application configured with Inertia and React, plus TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, and a preconfigured component library using shadcn ui and Radix UI primitives.
• Why it helps: You get a React plus Inertia stack that already includes a modern component system and tooling, so you can build React powered interfaces on top of Laravel routing without setting up the integration yourself.

6. Blank React Starter Kit

• Repository: laravel/blank-react-starter-kit
• What it provides: A minimal Inertia plus React setup for Laravel using TypeScript, Vite, and Tailwind CSS. It provides the integration and basic layout, but no component library or complex UI presets.
• Why it helps: Good when you want the official React integration with Inertia but prefer to choose or build your own design system and components.

Community Laravel Starter Kits

Community starter kits range from simple skeletons to full SaaS templates. They often add opinionated tooling, admin panels, or end user features that go beyond what the official kits cover.

1. LaravelDaily Starter Kit

• Repository: LaravelDaily/starter-kit
• What it provides: A Laravel project that demonstrates common application structure from the Laravel Daily tutorials. It includes authentication scaffolding, example CRUD resources, form requests, policies, basic tests, and a ready to use layout with Tailwind CSS.
• Why it helps: It doubles as a teaching resource and a practical base. You see real Laravel patterns in a complete project and can build on those patterns directly for smaller production apps.

2. Kaido Kit

• Repository: siubie/kaido-kit
• What it provides: A Laravel starter that combines an application shell with Filament. It ships with a prebuilt admin panel, layout, and example resources using Filament, along with authentication and basic navigation.
• Why it helps: You get a Filament powered admin area with Laravel wired around it from day one, which is useful when your project revolves around dashboards and back office workflows.

3. Filament Jetstream

• Repository: stephenjude/filament-jetstream
• What it provides: A starter kit that integrates the full Laravel Jetstream feature set into a Filament panel. It brings authentication, registration, two factor authentication, session management, API tokens using Sanctum, profiles, and optional team support, all implemented through native Filament panels and components.
• Why it helps: If you plan to use Filament for your admin but still want Jetstream style features for users, this kit gives you those capabilities inside Filament without wiring Jetstream and Filament together manually.

4. Genesis by DevDojo

• Repository: thedevdojo/genesis
• What it provides: A Laravel starter kit built on the TALL stack with Folio and Volt. It ships with an index page, an about page, authentication pages with login, register, email verification, password reset, a dashboard, a profile edit screen, and a learn page that renders the README. It also includes several Blade layouts for app, marketing, and main shells plus a set of UI components and basic Pest tests for the provided pages.
• Why it helps: You get a ready made Livewire plus Folio plus Volt project with common pages and layouts already present, so you can extend those structures instead of building the marketing pages, authentication screens, and dashboard from nothing.

5. Larament

• Repository: codewithdennis/larament
• What it provides: A bloat free starter kit for Laravel 12 that preconfigures Filament 4 as the admin panel. It includes nunomaduro/essentials for stricter defaults, development tools like Larastan, Pint, Pest, Rector, and Debugbar, an opinionated Filament panel with SPA mode, a custom login page, profile management, and multi factor authentication, plus GitHub Actions workflows for tests, PHPStan, and Pint.
• Why it helps: It is aimed at teams that want Laravel 12 and Filament 4 with a strong testing and static analysis setup already in place. You can start from a production oriented admin panel and modern quality tooling without assembling those pieces yourself.

6. Tallstarter

• Repository: mortenebak/tallstarter
• What it provides: A Laravel 12 Livewire components starter kit that focuses on user, role, and permission management. It includes Flux UI components, SweetAlert based Livewire alerts, Spatie roles and permissions, strict Eloquent models, Debugbar, IDE helper, Rector, PHPStan, Pint, Pest tests, database seeders, and commands to create a super admin user.
• Why it helps: You get a Livewire based backend with authentication, roles, permissions, and a Flux powered UI ready to go. It is a practical base if you frequently build internal tools or admin heavy applications and want strict code quality tooling plus localization support from the start.

7. Larasonic Vue and Larasonic React

• Repositories:
  • shipfastlabs/larasonic-vue
  • shipfastlabs/larasonic-react
• What they provide: Open source SaaS starter kits built on Laravel with Inertia. The Vue variant uses Vue, Tailwind CSS, and Reka or shadcn inspired components. The React variant uses React, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn ui. Both focus on a modern SaaS style stack and include batteries such as authentication, billing integrations, settings, and other SaaS friendly features.
• Why they help: They are designed to launch SaaS products quickly. Much of the SaaS plumbing is already implemented on top of Laravel and Inertia, which lets you move straight to domain features instead of building layouts, onboarding, and account management by hand.

8. Fission

• Repository: joshcirre/fission
• What it provides: An opinionated Laravel starter kit that combines Folio file based routing, Volt powered Livewire components, and Flux UI. It is installed using the Laravel installer with the using flag and ships with example pages and configuration tuned for demos, tutorials, and Livewire first apps.
• Why it helps: If you like the Folio plus Volt plus Flux approach, this kit gives you a ready configured project that matches how the maintainer builds demo and tutorial applications, so you can copy that workflow instead of recreating it.

9. Fila Starter

• Repository: raugadh/fila-starter
• What it provides: A Filament starter kit that ships with a Filament admin panel already configured and ready for extension. It includes console commands for initializing the project, seeding, updating migrations and permissions when new resources or pages are added, and is maintained as a Filament plugin kit compatible with Filament 3 and 4.
• Why it helps: Useful when your application centers on Filament resources. You start from a preconfigured Filament setup with helper commands instead of creating the panel, roles, and basic wiring whenever you begin a new project.

10. AI Chat

• Repository: pushpak1300/ai-chat
• What it provides: A modern AI chat starter kit built with Laravel, Inertia, Vue, Tailwind CSS, and Prism. It demonstrates real time streaming AI responses using the Prism PHP SDK and includes an AI chat interface, theming, authentication, and a Laravel backend tailored for AI chat workflows.
• Why it helps: If you need to add AI chat to a Laravel app, this gives you a reference implementation with streaming, multi provider support, and a polished frontend, so you can adapt the code instead of designing the interaction model from scratch.

11. TallStackUI Starter Kit

• Repository: tallstackui/starter-kit
• What it provides: A Laravel 12 starter kit built on TallStackUI and Livewire. It includes a basic user CRUD that uses TallStackUI components to show how tables, forms, and layout pieces fit together, and it is documented on the TallStackUI site as the recommended way to preview the component suite.
• Why it helps: You see TallStackUI in a real Laravel project with Livewire and can reuse the provided CRUD and layout as a foundation for applications that plan to use TallStackUI extensively.

Wrapping Up

Official Laravel starter kits give you supported stacks for Livewire, Vue, and React, each with modern tooling and tight framework integration. Community kits build on top of that with real world concerns such as SaaS features, admin panels, strict tooling, or AI chat.

When you choose a starter kit, match it to your stack preference and project type:

• Livewire plus TALL style kits for Blade focused, server rendered apps.
• Inertia plus Vue or React kits for SPA like experiences on top of Laravel routing.
• Filament or TallStackUI kits for admin heavy or dashboard driven applications.
• Specialized kits such as Larasonic or AI Chat when you need SaaS features or AI chat from day one.

Picking a kit that matches both your frontend approach and your domain needs can remove most of the bootstrap work and let you focus on the parts of the application that are unique to your product.