Laravel 13 Starter Kits: Top 10 Picks and a Quick Setup Guide

A Laravel starter kit makes its biggest contribution before you write the first feature: it chooses the conventions you will live with. The right one gives your team familiar screens, a useful structure and fewer decisions to repeat. The wrong one leaves you maintaining packages and patterns your application never needed.

This Laravel 13 guide follows my Laravel 12 starter kits field guide with ten options worth examining, from Laravel's official frontends to community admin panels and simpler Blade foundations. The order favours broadly useful starting points, then more specialised choices.

Compatibility checked: 4 October 2026. These assessments use the repositories' default-branch dependency files and documentation, rather than installation tests. Seven declare Laravel 13 support. Laravel Daily, Kaido Kit and Genesis remain useful references, but their checked versions require an upgrade before a Laravel 13 project can adopt them.

1. Laravel Livewire Starter Kit — for teams comfortable with PHP

The official Livewire starter kit is my first shortlist entry for a team that already enjoys Blade. It combines Livewire, Tailwind and Flux UI, giving you a coherent starting point for interactive forms and application screens while keeping much of the work close to PHP.

The checked branch requires Laravel ^13.17, Livewire ^4.1 and PHP ^8.3. Those details matter when following tutorials written for earlier Livewire releases. Choose it when your first features are account settings, approval screens or conventional business workflows. The tradeoff is adopting Livewire's component model and Flux's conventions; take one representative screen through that model before committing the whole application. A familiar programming language helps, but it does not remove the need to understand how interactive state behaves.

2. Laravel React Starter Kit — for a React product team

The official React starter kit brings React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind and shadcn/ui into a Laravel application. Inertia connects the frontend to Laravel's routes and controllers, making this a natural candidate when your team wants React components alongside a conventional Laravel backend.

The current dependency files specify Laravel ^13.17 and Inertia ^3.0, so check versions before copying older Inertia examples. I would shortlist this for an application with a substantial interactive interface and developers who already work comfortably in React. The tradeoff is the everyday responsibility of maintaining both PHP and TypeScript code. Budget time for frontend conventions, component boundaries and accessible interactions, rather than treating the supplied dashboard as the finished product's architecture.

3. Laravel Vue Starter Kit — for a team that already speaks Vue

The official Vue starter kit combines Vue 3's Composition API, TypeScript, Tailwind and shadcn-vue. Like the React option, it uses Inertia to connect a component-driven interface to Laravel's routing and controllers. Its checked branch also declares Laravel ^13.17 and Inertia ^3.0.

Choose it when Vue is already the team's shared language, especially if your existing design work or reusable components use Vue. There is little value in switching frontend frameworks solely because another starter's screenshot looks better. The main consideration is how consistently you organise components and shared state as the application grows. Before choosing, sketch a real workflow with validation, an empty state and an error state; those are more revealing than a dashboard full of placeholder cards.

4. Laravel Svelte Starter Kit — for developers who prefer Svelte

The official Svelte starter kit gives Svelte users a direct route into the same Laravel application model. Its stack includes Svelte 5, TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn-svelte and Bits UI. The checked dependency files declare Laravel ^13.17 and Inertia ^3.0.

This is worth considering when Svelte's component style matches how your team likes to build interfaces. You can choose that frontend while continuing to organise backend work around Laravel routes and controllers. The practical tradeoff is ecosystem fit: check the particular editor, chart, upload widget or specialist control your product needs before settling on the kit. A short prototype of your hardest interaction will tell you more than comparing framework slogans or assuming every component library has an equivalent elsewhere.

5. Larament — for a focused Filament foundation

Larament by CodeWithDennis starts with Laravel 13 and Filament 5, then adds development tooling including Pest, PHPStan, Pint and Rector. Its documented panel configuration includes profile management and app-based multi-factor authentication. That makes it an appealing candidate for a team building an admin application and wanting established code checks from the beginning.

The important constraint is PHP: the checked 7.x branch requires ^8.5. Confirm that your development, CI and hosting environments match before choosing it. Also review its opinions, including custom migration stubs that omit down(). These are decisions you inherit. The README documents installation through composer create-project codewithdennis/larament; follow its setup instructions and inspect the generated application before adding your own resources.

6. Glow Starter Kit — for an admin panel with more included

Glow, from Ercogx, is a Laravel 13 and Filament 5 starter with a broader selection of panel integrations. The documented features include Shield for access management, activity logging, a profile page, database-backed settings and quick resource creation. Its current Composer requirements include PHP ^8.3.

Choose it when several of those features are already on your requirements list. The advantage is having a concrete integration to study and extend; the cost is owning the combined dependencies as they evolve. Follow the README's admin-user and permission setup carefully, then verify access with an ordinary account as well as an administrator. Its documented Laravel installer package is ercogx/laravel-filament-starter-kit. Check the release you install, since the repository also documents older Filament generations.

7. Laravel Starter by Nasir Khan — for a modular content application

Nasir Khan's Laravel Starter is closer to a CMS foundation than a small authentication scaffold. Its documented scope includes users, roles, permissions, social login and article-related modules, with separate frontend and backend organisation. The checked branch requires Laravel ^13.0, Livewire ^4.0 and PHP ^8.4.

I would shortlist it for a content-heavy application where modular organisation is useful from day one. For a tiny custom product, that structure may be more than you need. Read through one complete module before adopting its conventions, and review the project's GPL-3.0-or-later licence for your intended distribution. The repository documents an interactive php artisan starter:install setup flow after Composer installation, covering environment configuration, database preparation and frontend assets.

8. Laravel Daily Blade Starter Kit — a simpler reference requiring an upgrade

The Laravel Daily starter kit is interesting precisely because it keeps the interface approachable: Blade, Alpine.js and a layout inspired by CoreUI and AdminLTE. Its README describes authentication, a dashboard and profile settings, making it useful to study when you want familiar server-rendered pages with modest browser interactivity.

The checked branch requires Laravel ^12.0; it is not a Laravel 13 starter as published. Treat it as an upgrade project or a design reference for your own Laravel 13 application. Its README also calls the kit a work in progress. The documented package name is laraveldaily/starter-kit, but installing it does not change its framework constraint. The appeal is understandable code; the tradeoff is taking responsibility for the upgrade and its verification.

9. Kaido Kit — a feature-rich Filament reference requiring an upgrade

Kaido Kit by siubie assembles a substantial admin toolkit: Filament Shield, Google social login, profile management, media handling, API tooling and Resend integration are among its documented features. That makes it a useful reference when exploring how a number of common admin requirements fit together.

Its checked Composer file requires Laravel ^12.0 and Filament ^3.2. Do not treat a fresh Kaido installation as a Laravel 13 foundation. Moving it forward means checking the whole plugin set and the application's integration code. I would study it where those integrations closely match a project's needs; otherwise, the migration effort could outweigh the saved setup. Its README documents composer create-project siubie/kaido-kit, followed by database and permission configuration for that existing stack.

10. DevDojo Genesis — a TALL and Folio reference requiring an upgrade

Genesis by DevDojo combines the TALL stack with Volt and Folio. Its documentation shows page-based routing, authentication pages and separate application and marketing layouts. It is worth examining if you like keeping page behaviour and presentation closely organised and want to understand how that approach feels across a small application.

The checked framework constraint is ^11.0|^12.0, which excludes Laravel 13. Use Genesis as inspiration or plan a deliberate upgrade, including checks for its Volt and Folio dependencies. The installer package is devdojo/genesis, despite the GitHub organisation being thedevdojo. That distinction matters when following its installation instructions. Choose this style because the page organisation suits your team, with the upgrade effort included in the decision.

Getting started with an official Laravel 13 kit

With PHP, Composer and a suitable Node environment available, the Laravel starter kit documentation gives this installation flow. Select your preferred kit when prompted:

composer global require laravel/installer
laravel new my-app
cd my-app
npm install
npm run build
composer run dev

For community kits, follow the linked repository's instructions and check the installed release's requirements. A default branch and the version Composer selects can differ. After installation, exercise registration, password reset and your first protected workflow before building out the rest of the product.

Turning your own starting point into a kit

Once you repeatedly make the same changes to new projects, a small internal kit can be worthwhile. Keep shared layouts, authentication decisions and development checks; leave project-specific business features in their own applications.

Laravel's custom starter kit guidance calls for publishing to Packagist, documenting environment variables in .env.example and placing necessary installation commands in composer.json's post-create-project-cmd array. Include placeholders rather than secrets. Verify a fresh installation into an empty directory before sharing it.

For most projects, begin with the official kit your team understands best. Choose a larger community foundation when its included features match work you already need to do. That is where a starter kit earns its place.