Laravel UI - PHP

Introduction

Laravel UI is a Composer package for providing the UI scaffolding for Laravel applications. It has several predefined front-end presets like Bootstrap, Vue, React, and Tailwind. This package helps developers to quickly set up and customize the front-end of their Laravel application.

Installation

You can install Laravel UI via Composer:

composer require laravel/ui

Usage

After installation, run the UI command to generate the front-end scaffolding:

php artisan ui [options]

For example, to generate Bootstrap preset:

php artisan ui bootstrap

This command will generate the necessary files for Bootstrap in the resources directory of your Laravel application.

Customization

Laravel UI allows developers to customize the front-end presets as per their needs. For example, to install specific versions of Bootstrap and jQuery:

php artisan ui bootstrap --auth --option='bootstrap=4 jquery=3'

This will install Bootstrap v4 and jQuery v3 along with the authentication scaffolding.

Conclusion

Laravel UI is a handy package for quickly setting up and customizing the front-end of Laravel applications. It provides several predefined presets and allows customization as per developers' needs.