🚀 Lara Dashboard – A Complete Role & Permission System for Laravel (with Dark Mode, Settings, Modules & More)

Hey Laravel Devs 👋

Tired of rewriting the same Role & Permission logic in every project? Let me introduce you to Lara Dashboard – a powerful Laravel starter kit packed with features to speed up your backend development. It's modular, beautiful, and 100% open-source.

✅ Live Demo: https://demo.laradashboard.com

🔐 Login:

Email: superadmin@example.com

Password: 12345678

⭐ GitHub Repo: github.com/laradashboard/laradashboard

🎯 What is Lara Dashboard?

Lara Dashboard is a modern admin panel built with Laravel, Tailwind CSS, and a fully modular structure. It’s designed to give you:

• A ready-to-use Role-Based Access Control system
• Clean UI with dark/light modes
• Advanced user, role, and permission management
• Modular architecture to scale your app easily
• Action logs, charts, forms, and even Laravel Pulse integration

Whether you’re building a SaaS platform, admin interface, or internal tool — this dashboard gives you a solid base so you can focus on building features, not scaffolding.

🧰 Core Features

✅ Role & Permission System (using Spatie/Permission)

🌗 Tailwind UI with Dark/Light Mode

👥 Multi-role User Management

🧩 Modular Development Support

🕵️‍♂️ Admin Impersonation

📈 Dashboard with Charts

📋 Action Logs & Laravel Pulse Monitoring

⚙️ Full Settings Panel (Appearance, Integrations, etc.)

📧 Email Ready (supports Mailtrap, SMTP, etc.)

🔥 Custom Error Pages

🧪 PHPUnit Ready

✨ Visual Sneak Peek

Light Mode Dashboard

Dark Mode Dashboard

More demos

Settings

Users

Roles

Action Logs

Laravel Pulse

Forget password

Modules

🛠️ Quick Installation Guide

git clone git@github.com:laradashboard/laradashboard.git
cd laradashboard
composer install
npm install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
php artisan storage:link
php artisan migrate:fresh --seed && php artisan module:seed
php artisan serve
npm run dev

Visit: http://localhost:8000

Login with the demo credentials and you’re in 🚪

💡 Why Developers Love It

• Time Saver: Avoid rebuilding roles, permissions, and dashboards for every project.
• Modular: Easily extend with modules like CRM, HRM, Course Management.
• Production Ready: Includes settings panel, password reset, profile management, etc.
• Clean & Scalable: Separation of concerns using services, helpers, and modules.

🔌 Mail Setup (Optional)

Testing email flows? Use Mailtrap with this config:

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=sandbox.smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=your-username
MAIL_PASSWORD=your-password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=you@example.com
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

🌟 Contribute & Support

Lara Dashboard is fully open-source and made with ❤️ by Maniruzzaman Akash.

If it helps you:

• Give it a ⭐ on GitHub
• Submit a PR
• Buy a coffee ☕ on Patreon

🔮 What’s Coming Next?

Premium modules are on the way at laradashboard.com, including:

• CRM
• HRM
• Course Management
• ...and more!

🗣 Final Words

If you’re working on a Laravel project and want a ready-made admin panel with role management, modularity, and gorgeous UI — Lara Dashboard will save you hours of work.

Check it out, clone it, star it, and let’s build amazing things together! 🚀

👉 https://github.com/laradashboard/laradashboard

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