Laravel Setup Wizard

Install it, run php artisan serve, open the URL: a fresh project walks you through requirements, app settings, database, migrations and seeders, and the first admin account.

Install

composer require codecorner/laravel-setup-wizard --dev
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=setup-wizard-config
php artisan serve

Before the project is set up, artisan serve prints a reminder and every web request redirects to /setup. Once the last step finishes, a lock file is written to storage/app/setup-wizard.lock and the wizard's routes are no longer loaded.

Configure (config/setup-wizard.php)

• user.model: your user model (App\Models\Admin, etc.).
• user.fields: form fields and validation rules for the first admin.
• user.attributes: forced values, e.g. ['is_admin' => true] or ['role' => 'admin'].
• user.creator: your own class implementing Contracts\AdminCreator (assign roles, send mail, ...).
• seeders: seeder classes the user can tick on the migration step.
• migrate.fresh / migrate.paths: migrate:fresh or extra migration paths.
• steps: add, remove, or reorder steps. Custom steps extend Steps\Step.
• environments: defaults to ['local']. The wizard never runs elsewhere.

Notes

• Settings are held in storage/app/setup-wizard.staged.json and written to .env once, after the last step, so artisan serve restarts only at the very end.
• The database must exist already (SQLite files are created for you).
• Run php artisan setup:reset to remove the lock and run the wizard again.
• If the user table already has rows, the project counts as set up (detect_existing).

Security

• Local only: runs when APP_ENV is in environments (default local), and only for clients in allowed_ips with a Host header matching allowed_hosts. Don't add 0.0.0.0 or *. Never run artisan serve --host=0.0.0.0 on an unconfigured project.
• An existing user is never overwritten unless user.update_existing is true.
• Secrets sit in storage/app/setup-wizard.staged.json (mode 0600) until the last step, then move to .env.
• SQLite paths are limited to .sqlite/.db files inside the project; values with line breaks are rejected.