LaraLaunch — The Boilerplate: Start fast, build right. 🚀

Official Laravel boilerplate is minimalistic by design, empowering developers with flexibility while leaving many foundational decisions up to them.

This boilerplate fills that gap, providing pre-configured, best-practice-driven strong foundation. That means you start fast and build right from day one.

Features

✨ Up-to-Date with the Latest Versions

• ✔️ php 8.4
• ✔️ Laravel 11
• ✔️ Official Laravel boilerplate

✨ Optimized for Local Development

• ✔️ Essential packages configured for a seamless local development experience
• ✔️ docker-compose.yml using serversideup/docker-php
• ✔️ Useful & handy composer commands for streamlined development

✨ Built-in CI/CD

• ✔️ GitHub CI workflow with necessary automated checks included
  • composer lint — ensures consistent code styling
  • composer rector — keeps your code up to date
  • composer test.arch — architecture testing
  • composer test.unit — unit tests
  • composer test.feature — feature tests with a minimum coverage check
• ✔️ Deploy wherever you want
  • Containerized — Dockerfile to build ci, dev & deploy images using serversideup/docker-php
  • Deploy job — complete the .github/workflows/200-cd.yml and your application is ready to deploy

✨ Elegant testing framework

• ✔️ PestPHP configured with Architecture, Unit & Feature test-suites

✨ Essential Packages out of the box

• ✔️ IDE-Helper for autocompletion
• ✔️ Rector for effortless upgrades
• ✔️ Pint for code-styling
• ✔️ Larastan for static analysis, configured to max level

✨ Packed with Best Practices

• ✔️ Strict models
• ✔️ Strict types
• 🟡 A few more that we can't mention here, with many more on the roadmap

✨ Customizable

You can easily modify this boilerplate to fit your specific requirements.

Quick-start

• Installation
• Development
• Testing
• Deployment

Contributing

• Issues 👉 for bugs
• PRs 👉 for contributions
• Discussions 👉 for help, thoughts and suggestions