TetraStarter for Laravel

TetraStarter for Laravel is a batteries-included Laravel 13 starter kit designed for high-quality, scalable, maintainable apps. It includes curated tools for development, debugging, refactoring, testing, and frontend productivity — all preconfigured so you can start building immediately.

[!IMPORTANT] This is an opinionated Laravel starter kit created by somoscuatro team. While PRs are welcome, this is designed to fit the needs of one specific team.

Included Packages

This starter kit includes a curated selection of packages to enhance development productivity and code quality.

Core Framework & Environment

• Laravel 13
• Laravel Sail — Docker-based local development
• Sail SSL — Local HTTPS for Sail

[!TIP] Please notice that since we are using Sail SSL for local development, it might be necessary to trust the self-signed certificate in your OS/browser.

Debugging & Productivity

• Laravel Telescope — Debugging and insight for local environments
• Laravel Horizon — Queue management with Redis
• Laravel Debugbar — Debugging toolbar
• Laravel IDE Helper — Improved IDE support
• Laravel Boost — AI-assisted development

Code Quality & Refactoring

• Rector — Automated code refactoring
• Laravel Pint — PHP code style enforcement
• Prettier — JS/CSS code style enforcement
• Larastan — Static analysis for Laravel
• Peck — Typos checking

Testing

• Pest — Elegant PHP testing framework
• Pest Plugins — Browser Testing, Type Coverage, Stress Testing, Profanity
• Laravel Nightwatch — First-class monitoring for Laravel applications

Frontend

• Tailwind CSS — Utility-first CSS framework
• Vite — Fast frontend build tool

Installation

[!TIP] This starter kit uses Laravel Sail, So Docker is required. We recommend Orbstack on macOS for the best Docker experience.

[!TIP] For convenience, we suggest you to set up this alias in your shell: alias sail='bash vendor/bin/sail'.

Option 1: Laravel Installer (Recommended)

Use the Laravel installer to create a new project:

laravel new --using=somoscuatro/tetra-starter-laravel

Option 2: Manual Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/somoscuatro/tetra-starter-laravel.git && cd tetra-starter-laravel

2. Install Composer dependencies:

       docker run --rm \
       -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
       -v "$(pwd):/var/www/html" \
       -w /var/www/html \
       laravelsail/php84-composer:latest \
       composer install --ignore-platform-reqs
   

3. Create .env file:

   cp .env.example .env

4. Setup the project:

   sail composer run setup

5. Build assets

   sail bun run build

6. Run migrations and seed the database

   sail artisan migrate:fresh --seed

Composer Commands

• composer run setup — Install dependencies, setup environment, migrate, build assets, generate IDE helpers
• composer run lint — Run Pint and JS lint
• composer run format — Format PHP and JS code
• composer run refactor — Run Rector for code upgrades
• composer run test — Run all tests (unit, type coverage, profanity)
• composer run dev — Start development servers (PHP, queue, logs, Vite)

Have a look at composer.json for the full list of commands.

License

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