Ready-made Admin Panel for Laravel
Building an admin panel with Laravel is no longer a pain. If you're tired of long form configurations, resource controllers, and endless blade templates — meet FilamentPHP. It's a modern, powerful, and simple admin panel framework built for the Laravel ecosystem, powered by Livewire.
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What does Filament give you?
- 🚀 Fast and easy CRUD operations
- 🎨 Beautiful and pre-built UI (comes with Tailwind CSS)
- 🧠 Extensible structure for custom fields, filters, actions, and more
- 🛠️ Plugin support (create your own or use community-made plugins)
- 🔐 Permission and authentication integration
Filament Installation
composer require filament/filament:"^3.3" -W
php artisan filament:install --panels
This will create and register a new Laravel service provider called app/Providers/Filament/AdminPanelProvider.php.
Why Filament?
Because it’s more than just an admin panel. It's a tool built for developer productivity. Whether you're building a SaaS platform, CMS, internal management dashboard, or analytics system — Filament will make your job way easier.
Core Components of Filament:
- Resources – Core classes to automatically generate CRUD operations.
- Forms & Tables – Comes with dynamic form and table builders.
- Pages – You can create custom pages (e.g., dashboards).
- Widgets – Interactive components for stats, charts, and more.
Conclusion
If you're building a backend with Laravel and wondering "how do I build the admin panel?" — the answer is clear: FilamentPHP. It encourages you to focus more on your product than writing repetitive code.
In the next article, we’ll walk through creating your first Resource with Filament, and how to install Plugins. Get ready — we’re about to write some code! 😎