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A lightweight starter kit for Laravel with Vue 3 and Inertia.js — without the bloat of other official starter kits.

🎯 Philosophy

This starter kit is intentionally minimal and unopinionated. It provides only the bare essentials to kickstart a Laravel + Vue 3 application via Inertia.js, leaving you free to structure your project however you see fit.

✨ Tech Stack

Back-end

Laravel 13 — PHP 8.4+
Inertia.js (Laravel) ^3.0 — Bridge between Laravel and Vue
Ziggy ^2.6 — Laravel routes accessible on the client side

Front-end

Vue 3 ^3.5 — Reactive JavaScript framework
Inertia.js (Vue 3) ^3.0 — Vue adapter for Inertia
Tailwind CSS 4 ^4.0 — Utility-first CSS framework
Vue I18n ^11.3 — Internationalization
Vite 8 ^8.0 — Lightning-fast bundler

Tooling

vite-plugin-mkcert — Automatic local HTTPS
laravel-vite-plugin ^3.0 — Vite/Laravel integration

🚀 Getting Started

Requirements

PHP >= 8.4
Composer
Node.js >= 20
npm

Steps

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/dragonofmercy/laravel-vue-starter-kit.git
cd laravel-vue-starter-kit

Install PHP dependencies
```
composer install
```
Install Node.js dependencies
```
npm install
```

Set up the environment

cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

Create the SQLite database (default)
```
php artisan migrate
```

Start the development server

# In two separate terminals:
php artisan serve
npm run dev

# Or using concurrently (single terminal):
npx concurrently "php artisan serve" "npm run dev"

License

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

Support

If this project helps to increase your productivity, you can give me a cup of coffee :)

dragonofmercy / laravel-vue-starter-kit

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