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Stop building the same boilerplate. Ship faster.

A production-ready Laravel starter kit that gives you a full admin panel, authentication, role-based access control, security monitoring, and a beautiful UI — all installed with a single command.

Why Apex Starter Kit?

Most Laravel starter kits give you authentication and nothing else. Apex gives you everything your app needs on day one:

• A polished public-facing frontend landing page
• Full authentication (login, register, password reset, 2FA)
• A complete admin backend with real charts and live stats
• Role-based access control (RBAC) with fine-grained permissions
• Security logs that track every login and suspicious activity
• IP blocking to lock out bad actors instantly
• CSV and PDF exports on every major data table
• Bulk actions, searchable selects, and per-page pagination throughout
• A single config file to change the entire theme colour

Built on Laravel + Jetstream + Livewire + Tailwind CSS + Spatie Permission.

What's included

Quick start

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.2
• Laravel >= 11.0
• Composer
• Node.js >= 18

1. Require the package

composer require apexglobal/apex-starter-kit

2. Run the installer

php artisan apex:install

One command does everything:

• Publishes config, views, assets, controllers, models, routes, and seeders
• Registers FortifyServiceProvider and JetstreamServiceProvider in bootstrap/providers.php automatically
• Replaces the default welcome page with the Apex landing page
• Sets APP_NAME in your .env

3. Publish Spatie Permission migrations (first time only)

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Permission\PermissionServiceProvider"

This is kept separate so your migration file is never accidentally overwritten on re-installs.

4. Run migrations

php artisan migrate

5. (Optional) Seed demo data

php artisan db:seed

Creates 5 roles, a full permission set, and 6 demo users (password: password):

6. Build assets and serve

npm install && npm run build
php artisan serve

Visit http://localhost:8000 — your app is ready.

What you get out of the box

/                    → Public landing page
/login               → Authentication
/dashboard           → Admin dashboard with live stats and charts
/admin/users         → User management (CRUD, export, bulk delete)
/admin/roles         → Role management (modal-based, no page reloads)
/admin/permissions   → Permission management (modal-based)
/admin/security      → Security logs, IP blocking, exports
/user/profile        → Profile and password management

Customisation

Change the theme colour

// config/theme.php
'primary' => '#F97316',  // any hex colour

That one value updates buttons, links, highlights, and accents across the entire UI.

Edit views and controllers

Everything is published into your app — views under resources/views/, controllers under app/Http/Controllers/. You own the code and can modify anything freely.

Installer options

By default apex:install overwrites all existing files so nothing is skipped. Use --safe to preserve files you have already customised.

php artisan apex:install              # Fresh install — overwrites everything
php artisan apex:install --safe       # Re-install — skip existing files
php artisan apex:install --views-only # Only re-publish views

Tech stack

Support

• Email: contact@apexglobal.com
• Issues: GitHub Issues
• License: MIT

Apex Starter Kit by Apex Global Technologies — build less boilerplate, ship more product.