Modern React Starter Kit

This starter kit brings updates the base laravel starter kit with opinionated modern tooling setup.

What's Included:

• Laravel Latest: Built with the latest Laravel version (requires PHP 8.4+ and support 8.5)
• Essential Packages: Pre-configured with Laravel Essentials and Laravel Boost
• Code Quality: Integrated Pint, Rector, and PHPStan
• Testing Ready: Pest testing framework included
• IDE Support: Laravel IDE Helper for better development experience

🚀 Quick Start

Requires PHP 8.4+.

Using Laravel Installer (Recommended)

# Create a new project using Laravel installer
laravel new larasonic --using=shipfastlabs/modern-react-starter-kit

composer run dev

Using Git Clone

# Clone the repository via github 
git clone [email protected]:shipfastlabs/modern-react-starter-kit.git
cd modern-react-starter-kit

# Install dependencies
composer install
npm install

# Set up environment
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

# Run migrations
php artisan migrate

# Start development server
composer run dev

📦 Included Packages

Production

• nunomaduro/essentials - Essential Laravel packages

Development

• larastan/larastan - PHP static analysis
• rector/rector - Code refactoring and upgrades
• barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper - IDE autocompletion
• laravel/boost - Laravel-focused MCP server

🛠️ Development Tools

# Code formatting with Pint
./vendor/bin/pint

# Static analysis with PHPStan/Larastan
./vendor/bin/phpstan analyse --memory-limit=-1

# Code refactoring with Rector
./vendor/bin/rector

# Run tests
php artisan test

📝 License

This project is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Credits:

• Laravel Starter Kit
• Nuno's Strict Laravel Starter Kit