Launch Starter Kit

Laravel 13 + Launch Laravel + React 19 + Inertia v3 + VitePlus + Tailwind CSS v4 + shadcn

Getting started

composer create-project nckrtl/launch-starter-kit my-app
cd my-app
composer setup

composer setup is an interactive guided setup. AI agents should follow /create.md instead, which is the same flow without prompts.

To do it manually:

cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env: set APP_NAME, APP_URL, VITE_APP_URL (e.g. https://my-app.test)
composer install
bun install                 # also installs the git hooks
bunx playwright install chromium   # browser binary for Pest browser tests
php artisan key:generate
touch database/database.sqlite
php artisan migrate --force
bun run build

Git hooks need no setup. bun install runs vp config via the package.json prepare script, which points core.hooksPath at VitePlus's dispatcher; that dispatcher runs the committed .vite-hooks/pre-commit and .vite-hooks/pre-push scripts. Pre-commit runs the staged tasks declared in vite.config.ts against staged files only and re-stages what they fix; pre-push runs composer test && composer analyse. Prefix a command with VP_GIT_HOOKS=0 to skip them once.

Then set the site up for your local environment — Herd and Orbit each need different steps, and both serve the app themselves, so neither uses php artisan serve or composer dev:

• Herd: herd link my-app && herd secure → see herd.md
• Orbit: orbit instance:register my-app --path="$(pwd)" --root=public → see orbit.md

Set APP_URL and VITE_APP_URL to whichever domain that gives you. They must match exactly.

Working on the kit itself

The starter kit depends on nckrtl/launch-laravel from Packagist. To develop against a local checkout, link it rather than adding a path repository to composer.json — path repositories resolve only on your machine and break composer create-project for everyone else:

composer link ../../packages/launch-laravel
php artisan package:discover

composer link keeps composer.json and composer.lock untouched. Run composer unlink <path> to go back to the published package.

Agent-facing docs

/llms.txt and /create.md are served from resources/markdown/ by AgentDocsController. Edit the Markdown files; no rebuild needed.

Development

composer dev    # Server, queue, logs, and vite — only when nothing else serves the app

Under Herd or Orbit the app is already served — skip composer dev and follow the environment addendum linked above instead.

Stack

• Backend: Laravel 13, Launch Laravel, PHP 8.4+
• Frontend: React 19, TypeScript 7
• SPA bridge: Inertia.js v3 with SSR
• Styling: Tailwind CSS v4 with shadcn base-nova style
• Components: shadcn base-nova components backed by Base UI (@base-ui/react)
• Icons: Lucide React
• Toolchain: VitePlus (Vite 8 + Oxc linting/formatting)
• Routing: Waymaker (PHP attributes) + Wayfinder (TS route helpers)
• Component registry: @launch shadcn registry from launch-ui

AI-Assisted Development

This project uses AGENTS.md for AI coding assistants. It includes feature completion gates requiring Pest/Pest Browser coverage and agent-browser validation for UI-affecting work.

License

MIT