April UI Laravel starter kit

April UI is a Laravel starter kit for Livewire applications. It includes Laravel Fortify authentication, Livewire 4, a responsive application shell, account settings, and April UI Blade components.

For a server-rendered application without Livewire, use the companion yungifez/april-ui-blade-starter-kit kit.

Create an application

Install it with the Laravel installer from the published GitHub repository:

laravel new my-app --using=yungifez/april-ui-starter-kit

The installer creates the .env file, generates the application key, creates the SQLite database, runs migrations, and builds the frontend assets. For an existing checkout, run:

composer setup

Then start the local server:

composer dev

Customize the UI

April UI remains a Composer dependency. Use its normal Laravel view publishing workflow when an application owns a component implementation:

php artisan april:list
php artisan april:publish button

Published components are copied to resources/views/vendor/april/components. The published view overrides the matching package component through Laravel's normal view lookup rules.

Quality checks

composer test
npm run build

The starter kit keeps behavior in Laravel routes, middleware, Fortify actions, Livewire components, and PHPUnit/Pest feature tests. April UI supplies the presentation layer without replacing Laravel's application conventions.

Attribution

This project started from the structure and authentication flow of Laravel's official Livewire starter kit. April UI integration, the application views, the Blade component layer, and the remaining starter-kit changes are maintained in this repository.

License

This starter kit is open-sourced under the MIT license.