Why & How to install MoonShine v3

Forward Dev — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:29:32 +0000

Hello everybody & everyrock!

Prehistory

Today, I want to tell you about the awesome MoonShine framework, not the MoonShine that is MoonShine at grandpa's house in the village 🌙🏕️🍺🔥 And I want to tell you about the framework, which is based on the principles of Laravel architecture and the principles of the author's view of the code.
Perhaps I will surprise someone, but this framework helped me a lot in routine tasks with CRUD-operations, query filters, fields decorations and many more packages, where you can find them on the plugins page.
⌛ In total, it has helped me speed up my development time many times over, at least 3-4 months of time savings per year on average. ☕📚👨‍🎓 By the way, while I was studying this tool - wrote 3 small projects 🎯🛠️📊, such as logging for API services, a simple blog and a very complicated case like a freelance exchange with a balance for users. It turns out that the rest of the time, I can spend on my own projects, after my clients' projects with the same workload that I have today as I have had for the last 🔟 years 🚀🌌.

So what is this thing? 🌚

MoonShine is a modern admin panel for Laravel applications. Below is a step-by-step guide to installing MoonShine for Laravel.

As you might have guessed under the hood there is a stack time-honored of Tailwindcss, Alpine.js, Laravel

This is an open-source project, the main task of which is to make the admin panel as simple as possible (for junior developers) and at the same time functional and customizable (for experienced ones).
Danil Shchutsky (c)

Requirements [composer v2+]

"require": {
    "php": "^8.2",
    "laravel/framework": "^10.48",
}

Step 0: Create a New Laravel Project

If you don’t have a Laravel project yet, create one:

composer create-project laravel/laravel my-first-moonshine-project  
cd my-first-moonshine-project

Step 1: Install MoonShine via Composer

Add MoonShine to your project using Composer:

composer require moonshine/moonshine

Step 2: Publish MoonShine skeleton

Run the following command to publish configuration files and assets:

php artisan moonshine:install {--with-options}

You can learn about all supported options in the section Commands of documentation.

Step 3: View awesome result

Up serve like:

php artisan server --port={YOUR_LIKE_PORT}

Don't forget update your new .env file after install laravel 🐱

Also you should look into config/moonshine.php or MoonShineServiceProvider.php to understand the entire universe 🌌🌍🌙🪐✨,
by default route is /admin 🌅🌲🚶‍♀️

All done, well done! 🌈🎉👏

I hope you also find this reliable tool useful. as I found it for myself. ❤️

Good luck!

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