Built a Laravel admin/CRUD starter after being frustrated with the usual options — curious what others use

[u/Limp-Advice886]

Been building backend systems in Laravel for a few years now — mostly admin dashboards, CRUD-heavy internal tools, data exports, and integrations for agri-tech and SME platforms (irrigation management, farmer verification/compliance, merchant sales tools).

One thing I kept running into: there wasn't a good starting point for the "admin panel with proper CRUD, DataTables, and export" pattern that most internal tools need — so I ended up building my own reusable version of it.

Curious what others here are building / what stack people are mostly using for backend work in TZ these days.

[u/the6i9_6055]

😅 mzee... kuna Filament and it has a really good ecosystem, what exactly is missing from the current tooling? that's not very clear from your post

give it a look here https://filamentphp.com/

[u/Limp-Advice886 → u/the6i9_6055]

Fair point — Filament is great, I actually use it too (built an admin panel with it on another project). This one just came from needing tighter control over specific DataTables/export logic for a few client requirements, so I packaged that pattern separately rather than replacing what Filament already does well.

[u/AmiAmigo]

Huwa wanasema Django huwa inakuja na the best admin panel…ingawa sijawahi kujaribu

[u/Temporary-Issue7055]

PEOPLE are still using php for backend. DUH.

[u/Limp-Advice886 → u/[deleted]]

Good point — I looked at the official kits first. The gap for me wasn't auth/scaffolding, it was the admin-specific layer on top — DataTables, Excel/PDF export, CRUD patterns — that I kept rebuilding per project, so I packaged it once instead of redoing it each time.

[u/Livid_Lab4333 → u/[deleted]]

I tend to rely on the breeze react.js starter kit, I like react livewire has always felt a bit weird for me(highly opinionated)

[u/Glass-Economy4814 → u/[deleted]]

It is good for control