Laravel + Livewire: First Look at the New Official Starter Kit

Dive into Laravel's new Livewire Starter Kit! Discover how it simplifies dynamic frontend development for PHP lovers. Comment and share your thoughts!

00:00 Introduction
02:08 Starter Kit Features
04:54 User Experience
06:33 Code Structure
09:53 Livewire Components
13:42 Advanced Features
19:21 Conclusion

[ajlive]

i am not too familiar with flex. but when i check the basic card, table, and most of the common elements are pro. and cost over 200$ to buy it.. how can i use normal tailwind css with this ?

[rafaelcjsful]

I love laravel, but where is the good and old simple blade, alpine js starter kit?

[warmardev]

Very nice job with the starter kits! I love Livewire and love Flux Component Library. I purchased the PRO version with lifetime access, to support Caleb and his work for the Livewire ecosystem. Whoever is still out here crying about the price after the recent updates, just doesn't value the time and effort he put into this masterpiece. The amount of JS and CSS code he saves with this library is just amazing, whoever think it doesnt worth 300$ for lifetime acces can just go ahead and design their own UI, nobody forces them to not do it!

[MRashid-eo]

i am using linux i prefer composer create-project to build a new project ....this command is creating laravel 12 version app right now but it does not ask to choose which startkit i want....is it not working with composer command

[adamrashid]

The starter kits must be reconsidered especially the tall stack livewire. Flux too expensive to use.

[davidbriggs]

Is there no starter kit for API?? With fortify and sanctum include etc.

[incoming-th]

Livewire will not work properly when you add CSP rules because it requires unsafe-eval, no solution to this yet.

Volt, look I get it but if I was starting with that few years ago I will not understand Laravel structure. Volt has its uses but being introduced in starter kit could lead new devs to create monstrosity codes on a medium to large app.

Flux, again I get it why it's added here, but all important fields are under paid license which could be a showstopper. Would have been preferable to have a fully free one such as maryUI, etc.

At the end, all is open source and I do not complain, I will just pick what I need and develop what is missing. Just happy to have started Laravel at version 5 rather than version 12 as I believe we learned so much with blade component than with Volt for example.

Thanks for the vids as usual.

[codewithfreeborn]

Volt looks nice. Reminds me of Vue/React. I like it 😁 (Because of co-location, not because it reminds me of Vue/React)
Can't wait to try it out!

[DanielŚmigiela]

hmm .. at windows with herd, cli installer (laravel new name) dosent show starters kit list. Automaticly install empty laravel 12 project .. its a bug? or mayby another installer version i need?

[fedeklik]

Why with react the sidebar is collapsible but with livewire no?

[phpcoderforever]

Why you said those starter kits are not packages so what are they?

[jonatasbaldan]

Laravel Team should have buyed Flux from Caleb and switch the whole library to free if it is the "head start" they want a new user to have with Laravel. Flux is a competent component library, but half of the components are paid and not even has the quantity of components that shadcn have.

And about Volt, like, I get it when this can be useful, but auth it's kinda to important to have in a inline component and can confuse some newcomers to the framework.

[viniciusresende]

Hello, if you could start uploading videos with the automatic dubbing feature, it would really help us Portuguese speakers to better follow content that is not live.

[popelyshyn]

nah, cringe:

u have volt, include, components, livewire and flux in same file?

just why?

[stephenshead]

Love your work, and personally I love the new starter kits.

(No, not being paid to say that 😛 Getting a bit sick of all the loud voices dumping on something that has the hide to be different to how they personally might have done it. I’m sure plenty of people not making noise like the new starter kits.)

[上原恵太郎]

Laravel selling more useless sht, making builds more complex, instead of adding actual features. Rails has mobile now, and it's much simpler to build, especially on a Linux machine, the opposite of Laravel which is turning into Next.JS 2.0.

[joemoe]

What I hate about this starter kit is "Volt." Seriously, why do I see all the backend logic in a Blade file? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the Single Responsibility Principle and creating reusable Livewire components?

[DanielŚmigiela]

i like your voice :D greetings form Poland, bro!

[PabloZagni]

So bad many Flux components are in the Pro version

[yehuuu-xltd]

They should have added more options, like non-Flux or non-Volt kits as well. Forcing them is a bit shameful, especially when the Flux Pro costs $150 for a single project. I get that Caleb built a business, but this is not the way to promote a product.