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A minimal Laravel 13 application with the public Capell CMS foundation already wired to a Filament admin panel. Use it to evaluate Capell without first assembling a fresh Laravel app by hand.

Capell packages are distributed under the Capell licence. Paid Marketplace packages use authenticated Composer access after purchase.

Create a project

Requirements: PHP 8.4+, Composer 2.7+, Node.js 20+, and a database supported by Laravel. Required PHP extensions are fileinfo, intl, mbstring, openssl, curl, simplexml, and either gd or imagick.

composer create-project capell-app/capell-skeleton my-capell-site
cd my-capell-site

For a local SQLite trial:

touch database/database.sqlite
php artisan migrate --force
php artisan capell:install --demo --url=http://localhost:8000
php artisan capell:doctor
npm ci
npm run build
php artisan serve

Open the public site at http://localhost:8000 and the admin panel at http://localhost:8000/admin.

The installer runs real preflight checks before it mutates the application. If a requirement or writable path is missing, fix the reported failure and rerun the same command.

What the starter includes

• Laravel 13 and a normal application-owned app/, routes/, and resources/ tree.
• Stable capell-app/* packages for Core, Admin, Frontend, the Foundation theme, Layout Builder, Block Library, Navigation, Welcome Tour, Installer, and Marketplace.
• A committed Capell-aware Filament panel provider.
• SQLite-ready local defaults plus database cache, session, queue, and user migrations.
• Vite assets and ordinary Laravel test scaffolding.

This repository is a starting application, not Capell Core. You own the created project and can add application models, Actions, Livewire/Inertia pages, Blade views, tests, and deployment configuration normally.

Existing Laravel application

Do not copy this skeleton over an existing app. Follow the Capell install guide so its providers, routes, frontend, and database changes are reviewed in place.

Laravel Cloud

The same repository shape works on Laravel Cloud. Configure the database and application URL in the environment, use composer install && npm ci && npm run build as the build path, and run migrations plus capell:install from the deployment workflow. Commercial package credentials belong in Cloud secrets, never in this repository.

Verify the starter

composer validate --strict
php artisan test

Documentation: docs.capell.app