Being a freelancer, starting new projects can be a little repetitive, and often times daunting. This repository includes the awesome Laravel framework, with the beautiful AdminLTE administration template.

of course, Laravel 5.1 and AdminLTE template, which itself requires Twitter Bootstrap which is also included here.

In addition, some useful packages are installed out of the box.

• Laravel DebugBar
• Intervention Image
• BootForms
• Faker

Note! An important note to take, is that my friend Kouceyla contributed to making an RTL version of the AdminLTE template (here is the pull request), so I used the CSS file he added, you'll find it in /resources/assets/sass/admin/app-rtl.scss.

• All the server requirements when using Laravel 5.1 (see here)
• Node Package Manager (npm) installed.
• Gulp installed globally. See the GulpJS Getting Started Guide.
• And that's it... Yeah!

After satisfying all the requirements,

1. Clone this repo.
2. run composer install
3. run sudo npm install

And you're done. Now start working!

Now, for the front-end automation, we use Laravel Elixir, which is just a simplified fluent API to interact with Gulp tasks, without the hassle of installing packages and defining tasks. Check out the documentation for further info.

Look at the /gulpfile.js file, and you'll get it all!

Note! If you want to change anything about Twitter Bootstrap, you'll find everything inside the /resources/assets/less/bootstrap/, and same for the AdminLTE template, anything related to it can be found /resources/assets/less/admin-lte/, and for the JavaScript, AdminLTE has a small JavaScript initialisation script, that has some configuration variables, can be found at /resources/assets/js/admin/admin-lte.js

Now, when working, run

gulp watch --production

That will listen for changes, and compile the Bootstrap & AdminLTE less files, and everything specified in the gulpfile.js file, and minify them (If you don't want them to be minified, remove the --production flag, as, that will tell Laravel Elixir to minify all the assets, CSS and JavaScript). For more info, refer the the Laravel Elixir Documentaiton

Enough talking... Just dig in! Keep whatever you want, and remove whatever that you don't want! This is an opinionated repository that I feel comfortable working with, and wanted to share it.