🚀 Kickoff

This package bootstraps a new Laravel project with all the essential tools, configs, and workflows you need for a modern and maintainable setup.

🎯 Target Setup

Kickoff is designed for Laravel projects with this starter configuration:

laravel new myapp --git --livewire --pest --npm --livewire-class-components

Includes:

• ✅ Git repository initialization
• ✅ Livewire for reactive components
• ✅ Pest for testing
• ✅ NPM for asset management
• ✅ Livewire class-based components

The complete setup is based on Project Template.

📥 Usage

Quick Start (Automatic Project Creation)

Kickoff can now automatically create a new Laravel project if one doesn't exist:

# 1. Install globally
composer global require cleaniquecoders/kickoff

# 2. Ensure Laravel installer is available
composer global require laravel/installer

# 3. Create and bootstrap in one command
kickoff start <owner> <project-name>

Complete Example:

# Creates ./blog directory with a fresh Laravel project, then applies kickoff
kickoff start johndoe blog
cd blog

This automatically runs:

laravel new blog --git --livewire --pest --npm --livewire-class-components --no-interaction

Usage with Existing Project

If you already have a Laravel project:

cd my-existing-project
kickoff start johndoe my-project .

Or specify the path:

kickoff start johndoe blog /path/to/existing/laravel

Options

• <owner> - Your name or organization (required)
• <project-name> - Project name (required)
• <project-path> - Project directory (optional, defaults to ./<project-name>)

What Happens

📦 Creating new Laravel project blog...

⏳ Creating Laravel project with Livewire, Pest, and Git... ✅

🎉 Let's kickoff your johndoe/blog now!

⏳ Copy application stubs... ✅
⏳ Update composer.json... ✅
⏳ Update project files... ✅
⏳ Configure environment... ✅
⏳ Install packages... ✅
⏳ Build assets... ✅

🎉 Project setup completed successfully!

⚠️ Warning: Only run on fresh Laravel projects. Existing project files will be overwritten.

✨ Features

• 📦 Installs required Laravel packages:

  • spatie/laravel-permission
  • spatie/laravel-medialibrary
  • cleaniquecoders/traitify
  • cleaniquecoders/laravel-media-secure
  • owen-it/laravel-auditing

• 🛠 Dev tools:

  • barryvdh/laravel-debugbar
  • larastan/larastan for static analysis
  • driftingly/rector-laravel
  • pestphp/pest-plugin-arch for architecture testing

• ⚙️ Configuration:

  • Adds QA scripts to composer.json
  • Autoloads support/helpers.php
  • Creates rector.php, phpstan.neon.dist, and pint.json

• 📂 Project Structure:

  • support/ for helpers
  • Refactored routes/ into web/, api/, and console/ subfolders (backups included)
  • tinker/ with .gitignore
  • docs/README.md with a placeholder TOC

• 🛡️ Automation Scripts:

  • Creates executable scripts in bin/ for tasks like backup, deployment, PHPStan reporting, dependency updates, and project install
  • All scripts use the current directory name as the project name

• ✅ Testing:

  • Generates tests/Feature/ArchitectureTest.php using Pest Arch

• 📝 Documentation:

  • Creates CHANGELOG.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, SECURITY.md, SUPPORT.md, and LICENSE.md

• ⚡ GitHub Actions Workflows:

  • Pint (Laravel Pint)
  • PHPStan
  • Rector
  • Tests (Pest)
  • Changelog updater

• 🔧 Artisan & Project Tasks:

  • Clears config and view caches
  • Runs migrations
  • Creates storage symlink
  • Publishes package configs and migrations

• 🛠️ Infrastructure Templates:

  • Sets up .config/ with Nginx and Supervisor templates

📸 Screenshots

Dashboard

The generated project includes a fully-featured admin dashboard with user statistics, quick actions, and system information.

Role & Permissions Management

Manage roles with granular permissions using Spatie Laravel Permission.

Settings Management

Configure application settings through an intuitive admin interface.

🧪 Development & Testing

For Contributors

Test your changes to kickoff using the sandbox script:

# Create fresh Laravel app and apply kickoff
bin/sandbox run

# Inspect the generated project
cd test-output/sandbox
# create a database in mysql named `sandbox`

Then create tables & seed data:

php artisan reload:db

Run the sandbox app:

npm run build
php artisan serve

To clean up sandbox, run:

bin/sandbox reset

Sandbox Features:

• ✅ Automated testing workflow (30 seconds vs 10 minutes manually)
• ✅ Git-safe (uses skip-worktree to prevent accidental commits)
• ✅ Repeatable testing cycles
• ✅ Isolated test environment

Requirements:

• Laravel installer: composer global require laravel/installer

See bin/sandbox for detailed usage and commands.

🛡️ Automation Scripts

• Creates executable scripts in bin/ for common project tasks:

  • backup-app: Backup your application files
  • backup-media: Backup only media files changed in the last 24 hours
  • build-fe-assets: Build and commit frontend assets
  • deploy: Deploy code to your server with branch/tag support
  • update-dependencies: Update Composer and npm dependencies, audit and build assets
  • reinstall-npm: Remove and reinstall npm modules and lock file
  • install: Project initialization, database setup, and environment configuration
  • phpstan: Run PHPStan and generate readable reports per identifier

• All scripts use the current directory name as the project name for dynamic configuration.

• Scripts are made executable and can be run directly from the bin/ directory.

Security Vulnerabilities

If you discover a security vulnerability within AirBox, please send an e-mail to Nasrul Hazim via nasrulhazim.m@gmail.com. All security vulnerabilities will be promptly addressed.

Contributors

License

The Laravel framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.