Alpha is my personal playground for exploring Laravel with React and Inertia.js. Built on top of the ultra-strict, type-safe Laravel Starter Kit, this project serves as my primary starter project for experimenting with Laravel features and gradually building all Laravolt features based on my experience maintaining the Laravolt ecosystem.

This is a customized version of the Laravel Starter Kit (Inertia & React) that maintains all the rigorous development standards while serving as a personal laboratory for:

• Exploring Laravel 12 features and best practices
• Building modern UI components with React and Inertia.js
• Implementing Laravolt-inspired features incrementally
• Testing architectural patterns and development workflows
• Creating reusable components and actions

• Laravel Starter Kit (Inertia & React): github.com/nunomaduro/laravel-starter-kit-inertia-react
• Inspired by Laravolt: A Laravel package ecosystem for rapid application development

This project maintains the strict standards of the original starter kit:

• ✅ Fully Actions-Oriented Architecture: Every operation is encapsulated in a single-action class
• ✅ Cruddy by Design: Standardized CRUD operations for all controllers, actions, and Inertia & React pages
• ✅ 100% Type Coverage: Every method, property, and parameter is explicitly typed
• ✅ Zero Tolerance for Code Smells: Rector, PHPStan, ESLint, and Prettier at maximum strictness
• ✅ Immutable-First Architecture: Data structures favor immutability to prevent unexpected mutations
• ✅ Fail-Fast Philosophy: Errors are caught at compile-time, not runtime
• ✅ Automated Code Quality: Pre-configured tools ensure consistent, pristine code
• ✅ Just Better Laravel Defaults: Thanks to Essentials
• ✅ AI Guidelines: Integrated AI Guidelines to assist in maintaining code quality and consistency
• ✅ Full Testing Suite: Comprehensive tests with 100% code coverage using Pest

As I build out this playground, I'll be implementing features inspired by my experience with Laravolt:

• Advanced authentication flows (email verification, two-factor, social login)
• User management and profile system
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Form builder components
• Media library and file management
• Activity logging and audit trails
• Notification system
• Settings management
• Advanced search and filtering
• Workflow and approval systems

Each feature will be built with modern best practices, full type safety, and comprehensive testing.

Requires PHP 8.4+ and a code coverage driver like xdebug.

Create your type-safe Laravel application using Composer:

composer create-project nunomaduro/laravel-starter-kit-inertia-react --prefer-dist example-app

Navigate to your project and complete the setup:

cd example-app

# Setup the project
composer setup

# Start the development server
composer dev

If you plan to use Pest's browser testing capabilities:

npm install playwright
npx playwright install

Run the test suite to ensure everything is configured correctly:

composer test

You should see 100% test coverage and all quality checks passing.

• composer dev - Starts Laravel server, queue worker, log monitoring, and Vite dev server concurrently

• composer lint - Runs Rector (refactoring), Pint (PHP formatting), and Prettier (JS/TS formatting)
• composer test:lint - Dry-run mode for CI/CD pipelines

• composer test:type-coverage - Ensures 100% type coverage with Pest
• composer test:types - Runs PHPStan at level 9 (maximum strictness)
• composer test:unit - Runs Pest tests with 100% code coverage requirement
• composer test - Runs the complete test suite (type coverage, unit tests, linting, static analysis)

• composer update:requirements - Updates all PHP and NPM dependencies to latest versions

Laravel Starter Kit Inertia React was created by Nuno Maduro under the MIT license.