Laravel Admin Starter is a production-ready admin panel built on Laravel 12, Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, and Vite. It gives you a solid, well-structured foundation so you can focus on building your product — not boilerplate.

Everything you need for a modern SaaS or internal tool is already wired up: authentication, role-based access control, two-factor authentication, real-time notifications, a drag-and-drop calendar, team chat, an activity log, and even a visual CRUD generator that writes code for you.

The UI is clean, dark-mode ready, fully responsive, and built with a consistent design system using reusable Blade components and utility CSS classes.

Stop spending weeks on admin scaffolding. Clone, configure, and ship.

• Admin Dashboard — KPI stat cards, Chart.js line chart (user growth) and doughnut chart (role distribution), recent users table, activity feed
• Users CRUD — list with search & role filter, create/edit/delete, avatar upload, role assignment
• Roles & Permissions — full CRUD for roles and permissions using spatie/laravel-permission; permissions grouped by resource (dot-notation)
• Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) — TOTP via Google2FA, QR code setup, recovery codes
• User Impersonation — admins can log in as any non-admin user for support and debugging
• API Tokens — Laravel Sanctum integration; create tokens with custom abilities and expiry dates
• Database Notifications — bell icon dropdown with unread count, full notifications page, mark as read
• Calendar — FullCalendar (month/week/day views), create/edit/delete events via JSON API, ownership enforced
• Team Chat — Alpine.js real-time polling, conversations between admin users, mobile-responsive (collapsible user list + Back button)
• Activity Log — auto-logs key actions across the app, filterable table, clearable by admins
• CRUD Generator — generates Model, Migration, Controller, Routes and full Blade views from a simple UI form
• Profile Management — update personal info, change avatar, change password
• Settings Module — site name, contact email, timezone, default theme, user registration toggle
• Dark Mode — class-based dark mode toggled via Alpine.js, persisted in localStorage
• Collapsible Sidebar — state persisted in localStorage, icon-only collapsed mode, responsive mobile overlay
• Multi-language ready — translation files included for English, Slovak, and German
• Security hardened — rate limiting on sensitive routes (login, chat), ownership checks on all user-owned resources, system roles protected from deletion

• PHP 8.2 or higher
• Composer 2.x
• Node.js 18+ and npm
• SQLite (default, zero-config) or MySQL / PostgreSQL (change .env)
• PHP extensions: pdo_sqlite, openssl, mbstring, tokenizer, xml, ctype, json, bcmath
• A web server: Laravel's built-in server (php artisan serve) works for development; Apache or Nginx for production

1. Unzip the downloaded archive and navigate to the project folder.
2. Copy the environment file:

   cp .env.example .env
   
   

3. Install PHP dependencies:

   composer install
   
   

4. Generate the application key:

   php artisan key:generate
   
   

5. Run migrations and seed demo data (creates admin & editor accounts):

   php artisan migrate:fresh --seed
   
   

6. Create the storage symlink for file uploads:

   php artisan storage:link
   
   

7. Install frontend dependencies and build assets:

   npm install && npm run build
   
   

8. Start the development server:

   php artisan serve
   
   

9. Visit http://localhost:8000/admin and log in with:
   Admin: [email protected] / password
   Editor: [email protected] / password
10. For production, update your .env (APP_ENV=production, APP_DEBUG=false, DB_* settings, MAIL_* settings) and run npm run build.