Aura CMS

A content management system for Laravel developers. Define your content types as PHP classes — Aura generates the admin panel around them: forms, tables, search, media, and permissions. Built on the TALL stack (Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel, Livewire).

How it works

A resource is an Eloquent model that declares its fields. This class is a complete, working content type:

<?php

namespace App\Aura\Resources;

use Aura\Base\Resource;

class Article extends Resource
{
    public static string $type = 'Article';

    public static ?string $slug = 'article';

    public static function getFields()
    {
        return [
            [
                'type' => 'Aura\\Base\\Fields\\Text',
                'name' => 'Title',
                'slug' => 'title',
                'validation' => 'required|max:255',
            ],
            [
                'type' => 'Aura\\Base\\Fields\\Wysiwyg',
                'name' => 'Content',
                'slug' => 'content',
            ],
            [
                'type' => 'Aura\\Base\\Fields\\BelongsTo',
                'name' => 'Author',
                'slug' => 'author_id',
                'resource' => 'Aura\\Base\\Resources\\User',
            ],
        ];
    }
}

Drop it in app/Aura/Resources and /admin/article serves a full CRUD interface — index table with sorting, filtering and search, create/edit forms with validation, and policy-based permissions. No migration needed: fields are stored as meta by default, and you can move a resource to its own table when it grows.

Features

• 42 field types — text, dates, media, relationships, repeaters, tabs and panels — plus your own via php artisan aura:field
• Table views — list, grid, and kanban, with saved filters and per-user column settings
• Media manager — drag-and-drop uploads with automatic thumbnails
• Roles & permissions — per-resource permissions enforced by policies
• Teams — optional multi-tenancy with automatic scoping of every resource
• Global search — Cmd+K across all resources, with bookmarks and recent pages
• Visual resource editor — edit fields in the browser during local development; changes are written back to your PHP classes
• Plugins — package resources, fields, and pages with php artisan aura:plugin

Requirements

• PHP 8.4+
• Laravel 12 or 13
• Livewire 4

Installation

composer require eminiarts/aura-cms

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=aura-config
php artisan aura:install-config
php artisan aura:extend-user-model
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=aura-migrations
php artisan migrate
php artisan aura:publish
php artisan aura:user

These commands publish and configure Aura, connect your application user model, run the package migration, publish the frontend assets, and create the first administrator. Then log in and open /admin.

Aura 1.0 is a fresh baseline rather than an automated upgrade from 0.x. Existing 0.x applications should read UPGRADING.md before changing constraints.

Documentation

Full documentation at aura-cms.com/docs — from the 15-minute quick start to the complete field reference.

Working with an AI assistant? The docs are LLM-friendly: aura-cms.com/llms.txt indexes every page, and every page is available as raw markdown by appending .md to its URL.

Testing

composer test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

Please follow the private reporting process in SECURITY.md.

Credits

Built by Emini Arts and all contributors. Aura CMS runs production applications for agencies and startups.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.