Martin Hähnel

An Unstyled Laravel Starter Kit

My favorite framework is called Laravel and at the moment I'm using it to run a bunch of experiments I call "POC training". POC stands for proof of concept and the idea behind POC training is to train to get from zero to a proof of concept implementation in limited time.

The POCs I'm trying to create are often simple CRUD apps. Like a bookmarking app or similar.

What is kind of annoying about Laravel's own starter kits is that they got somewhat bloaty. They include tailwindcss now by default and their starter templates get more in the way than they help if you're not intimately familiar with tailwind, flux (the component library of livewire, another tool you may not need), etc.

I was very happy that I found this list of custom starter kits by the community and in it this Unstyled Blade Starter Kit.

From Their Readme

Our Laravel + Unstyled Blade starter kit provides a lightweight and flexible foundation for building Laravel applications with Blade, without any predefined styles. It includes a built-in authentication system and provides unstyled views and layouts, allowing you to customize them as you wish. You can install your favorite libraries and CSS frameworks, such as Bootstrap, Tailwind, NES.css, Alpine, etc., or choose not to use any framework at all and design everything from scratch.

If you're using Herd to develop Laravel locally it's incredibly easy to get started.