Starter Kit Laravue Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Build vs. buy for greenfield work. This is a starter kit, not a runtime dependency — the real decision it informs is "adopt a third-party scaffold vs. spend 1–2 sprints building internal boilerplate." That's a cost-of-delay comparison, not a procurement decision.
• Time-to-first-demo. A Laravel + Vue starter kit compresses the gap between "project approved" and "stakeholders can click something." Useful when a roadmap item needs a proof of concept or a pilot squad is spinning up.
• Standardization / house-default decision. Whether new Laravel + Vue services should all start from the same base is a one-way-ish door for team conventions, onboarding docs, and CI templates. This package is a candidate for that role.
• Not a decision support for anything post-launch. Once forked, it is your codebase. There is no ongoing feature roadmap to track, no upgrade path to negotiate, and no vendor to hold accountable. Do not model this as a dependency in roadmap planning.
• Roadmap signal from release cadence. v2.0.0 is a major version bump whose changelog contains only automated dependency bumps (js-yaml, lodash, serialize-javascript/terser-webpack-plugin, picomatch, brace-expansion, flatted, fast-uri, defu). Read this as: security patching is happening, feature velocity is low, and changelog discipline is weak. That's acceptable for a scaffold and disqualifying for anything you'd expect to evolve with you.
• Risk register entry. Treat adoption as a bounded spike with an explicit exit, not an architectural commitment. Budget the cost of owning the fork from day one.

When to Consider This Package

Adopt when:

• You are starting a new Laravel backend + Vue SPA project and have no internal scaffold to inherit.
• The team is small and would rather not hand-roll auth, layout, and build tooling.
• You have engineering capacity to fork, audit, and own the result — including frontend dependency triage.
• The frontend toolchain it pins is a reasonable match for your stack (this kit's dependency set is webpack-era; confirm it aligns with your build conventions before committing).

Look elsewhere when:

• You need vendor support, an SLA, security attestation, or procurement-friendly licensing. This is a single-maintainer, dependabot-driven repository with no LTS commitment.
• Your stack calls for Inertia, SSR, multi-tenant, SSO/enterprise auth, or an opinionated design system — the kit's opinions will become rework.
• You already have a platform team or an internal template repository. Adopting an external scaffold on top of that creates a second source of truth.
• You cannot allocate time to audit the frontend dependency tree. The v2.0.0 changelog shows dependency churn without a stated breaking-change list — meaning you perform the compatibility analysis.

Specific guidance on v2.0.0:

• The jump from v1.0.3 to v2.0.0 is semver-major, but no breaking changes, migrations, or features are documented. Assume breaking until an engineer verifies otherwise.
• The listed bumps are almost all transitive frontend build-tooling packages and read as CVE remediation. That is a positive hygiene signal and a negative transparency signal.
• For an existing fork: do not auto-merge. Run a spike branch, build, and smoke-test before adopting.
• For a new project: starting fresh on v2.0.0 is reasonable; starting fresh on v1.0.3 is not.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For executives (one paragraph): This is a free, open-source starting template for building apps on Laravel (backend) and Vue (frontend). It doesn't add capability — it removes setup work, potentially saving a squad one to two sprints of boilerplate on a new product. The trade-off is ownership: once we adopt it, we own the code and its maintenance, and there is no vendor behind it. Recommendation: use it as an accelerator on a single pilot project with a named engineer owning the fork, and revisit only if it demonstrably saves time. Do not list it as a strategic dependency.

For engineering:

• It is a scaffold, not a library. Fork-and-own, no upstream merges expected.
• v2.0.0 is a major bump with a dependabot-only changelog — no documented breaking changes. Verify in a branch before touching any existing derivative.
• The dependency bumps are frontend build-tooling CVEs (lodash, js-yaml, serialize-javascript, picomatch, brace-expansion, flatted, fast-uri). Good that they're patched; note that nobody is writing release notes.
• Assess the webpack-era toolchain against our build standards before we standardize on it.
• Success criteria for the pilot: hours saved to first deployable environment, and a clean dependency audit at fork time. If either fails, we build the template in-house.