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Laravel Jetstream: First Look

Zubair Mohsin on August 29, 2020

What is Laravel Jetstream? It is a brand new Scaffolding package for your Laravel 8 projects. It goes beyond Authentication Scaffolding....
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Niels Kootstra • • Edited

Personally I can't wait for the release of Jetstream. Creating this every time is so much work and since it is compatible with Livewire makes it so much better. I was really surprised when I watched the Laracon stream. Also looking forward how easy it will be to extend the features

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Zubair Mohsin •

Yeah... I am also looking forward to extending part.

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Lee Perry •

My issue with it is that it’s tied to Tailwind, What if I don’t want to use tailwind css. What if I prefer bootstrap or .....

With Tailwind UI being released primarily as a subscription service I won’t be using it.

So what’s the alternative, convert to Tailwind css or go without the functionality?

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Zubair Mohsin •

Well, if you need all this cool functionality, converting to TailwindCSS is the only option.
If you only need Authentication scaffolding with Bootstrap, you can still use "laravel/ui" package.

With Jetstream being open source, I think it's only matter of time before someone makes a package for Jetstream and Bootstrap too.

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Lee Perry •

Personally I feel it should have been a built in option. Like many Laravel dev's I'm already productive with bootstrap, and looking forward to V5. My frustration is partly due as I'm about to starts a new project which was going to be in Laravel 8, and now I'm not sure. Don't really want to use a deprecated UI package and I'm not going to switch to Tailwind, Might just go with Vue and Adonis ?

Livewire looks good though, I could see me using that ;)

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Zubair Mohsin •

Give it a read if you haven't already, Thoughts on some reactions to Jetstream, by Taylor.

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Shoaib Akbar •

This is wao ♥️

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Zubair Mohsin •

Thank you :)

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Alexander Forselius •

Santa Claus come very early this year :-)

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Zubair Mohsin •

Haha... Brought lots of goodies.

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thiagotks2 •

Laravel Jetstream is already avaliable?
In their github repo, the link to documentation is missing

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Zubair Mohsin •

Yeah repository was recently made public. They are working on documentation now.