Filament Starter Kit Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Greenfield admin/back-office baseline: v1.2.0 positions the Filament Starter Kit as a modern starting point for new Laravel applications that need a Filament admin panel, authentication scaffolding, and tested CRUD foundations. This reduces time-to-first-screen for internal tools, MVPs, and operational back offices.
• Platform upgrade timing: The release is explicitly tied to Laravel 13 and PHP 8.3+. This is a useful forcing function for roadmap discussions about when to adopt Laravel 13 and standardize on PHP 8.3+, but it also means the kit is unsuitable for teams that cannot yet upgrade.
• Build vs buy/assemble: Supports evaluating “custom admin scaffolding” versus “adopt a starter kit + Filament ecosystem.” The decision should include not just initial build savings, but upgrade cadence, dependency maintenance, and compatibility with Filament 5, Curator, Shield, and Impersonate.
• Quality and tooling standardization: Pest 5, PHPStan level max, Rector, Pint, and reported 360 passing tests with 0 skipped provide a concrete quality baseline. PMs can use this to set expectations for new projects or compare against internal scaffolding standards.
• Dependency health signal: Replacing the deprecated nunomaduro/pao with laravel/pao, updating laravel/tinker to ^3.0, and refreshing Filament plugins suggests active maintenance. Still verify release cadence, support model, and license separately before committing.
• Primary use cases: New Laravel 13 admin applications, internal CRUD tools, Filament-based back offices, and greenfield MVPs where a tested starter kit is preferable to assembling auth/admin/testing infrastructure from scratch.

When to Consider This Package

• Consider it when: you are starting a new Laravel application, can mandate Laravel 13 and PHP 8.3+, need a Filament 5 admin panel, want Pest 5 with first-party PHPStan/Rector tooling, and prefer a maintained starter kit over a custom scaffold.
• Consider it when: your team accepts coupling to the Filament ecosystem and can absorb major-version upgrade work as Laravel/PHP/Filament versions advance.
• Look elsewhere when: you have an existing production app on Laravel 12 or earlier, or PHP 8.2 or earlier, and cannot budget a platform migration. This release is effectively a breaking environment upgrade, not a drop-in patch.
• Look elsewhere when: you need an API-only service, a non-Filament admin stack, a commercially supported LTS/SLA product, or a highly customized multi-tenant SaaS foundation with evidence of production hardening beyond a starter kit.
• Look elsewhere when: your organization already has a preferred admin scaffold, cannot adopt Filament 5/plugin updates, or requires strict control over upgrade timing and dependency churn.
• Adoption criteria: treat v1.2.0 as a greenfield accelerator. Validate it with a small pilot, confirm Filament plugin compatibility, confirm licensing/support expectations outside the release notes, and verify the claimed quality gates in your environment.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

• For executives: “This is a maintained Laravel 13/Filament admin starter kit that can shorten setup time for new back-office tools. It ships with modern quality gates — 360 passing tests, PHPStan level max, Rector, Pint — and current Filament dependencies. The main constraint is that adoption requires Laravel 13 and PHP 8.3+, so it is best piloted on a new project rather than retrofitted into an existing app without upgrade budget.”
• For engineering: “v1.2.0 upgrades to Laravel 13, PHP 8.3+, Pest 5 with first-party PHPStan/Rector plugins, replaces deprecated nunomaduro/pao with laravel/pao, updates Tinker to ^3.0, and refreshes Filament plugins. Treat it as a major environment upgrade: validate compatibility, run the quality gates locally, and use it as a greenfield starter kit rather than assuming it is safe for existing Laravel 12/PHP 8.2 applications.”