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Maniruzzaman Akash
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Advanced Laravel Dashboard for your application in 2025

๐Ÿš€ Lara Dashboard โ€“ A Complete Role & Permission System for Laravel (with Dark Mode, Settings, Modules & More)

Hey Laravel Devs ๐Ÿ‘‹

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

โœ… Live Demo: https://demo.laradashboard.com

๐Ÿ” Login:

Email: superadmin@example.com

Password: 12345678

โญ GitHub Repo: github.com/laradashboard/laradashboard


๐ŸŽฏ What is Lara Dashboard?

Lara Dashboard is a modern admin panel built with Laravel, Tailwind CSS, and a fully modular structure. Itโ€™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 youโ€™re building a SaaS platform, admin interface, or internal tool โ€” this dashboard gives you a solid base so you can focus on building features, not scaffolding.


๐Ÿงฐ Core Features

โœ… Role & Permission System (using Spatie/Permission)

๐ŸŒ— Tailwind UI with Dark/Light Mode

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Multi-role User Management

๐Ÿงฉ Modular Development Support

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Admin Impersonation

๐Ÿ“ˆ Dashboard with Charts

๐Ÿ“‹ Action Logs & Laravel Pulse Monitoring

โš™๏ธ Full Settings Panel (Appearance, Integrations, etc.)

๐Ÿ“ง Email Ready (supports Mailtrap, SMTP, etc.)

๐Ÿ”ฅ Custom Error Pages

๐Ÿงช PHPUnit Ready


โœจ Visual Sneak Peek

Dashboard Light

Light Mode Dashboard

Dashboard Dark

Dark Mode Dashboard


More demos

Settings
Settings - Lara Dashboard

Settings - Lara Dashboard

Settings - Lara Dashboard

Users

Users - Lara Dashboard

Users - Lara Dashboard

Roles

Roles - Lara Dashboard

Roles - Lara Dashboard

Action Logs
Action Logs - Lara Dashboard

Laravel Pulse
Laravel Pulse - Lara Dashboard

Forget password
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Modules
Modules - Lara Dashboard

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ 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
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Visit: http://localhost:8000

Login with the demo credentials and youโ€™re in ๐Ÿšช


๐Ÿ’ก 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.

๐Ÿ”Œ 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}"
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๐ŸŒŸ Contribute & Support

Lara Dashboard is fully open-source and made with โค๏ธ by Maniruzzaman Akash.

If it helps you:


๐Ÿ”ฎ Whatโ€™s Coming Next?

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

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

๐Ÿ—ฃ Final Words

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

Check it out, clone it, star it, and letโ€™s build amazing things together! ๐Ÿš€

๐Ÿ‘‰ https://github.com/laradashboard/laradashboard


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Top comments (4)

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fabliha afia โ€ข

Thank you for the resource, wil try it

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Maniruzzaman Akash โ€ข

Thanks, please let me know if you found any issues or usefullness of that.

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Kevin Naidoo โ€ข

Very nice! I like how neatly structured the code looks. Just one issue I noticed:

Z-index, if you scroll on this page, it overlaps the top navigation. demo.laradashboard.com/admin/users

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Maniruzzaman Akash โ€ข

Thank you Kevin for the awesome suggestion.

I'll fix those small issues and release it tomorrow.

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