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Neneone's avatar

Filament as a Laravel newbie

Hi guys, I'm looking to build an admin dashboard/web-panel. It doesn't need any fancy UI, it just needs to display some forms and some data linked to an SQL database.

I was thinking of using Laravel, and doing some research I stumbled upon Filament, which says to be made specifically for my use case. I have good knowledge of PHP and MySQL, but I've never done any serious web development, or written any front-end myself. I've developed a web panel in the past, but it was made with a front-end template and a pure PHP back-end.

Do you think with some study I could comfortably pick up Filament or should I start with a basic Laravel + Blade website (thus implementing some front-end template from the internet)?

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KalimeroMK's avatar

Filament is very good for rapid development but if you want to learn how to doit your need to do it your salve

Neneone's avatar

@KalimeroMK Thank you. So I do you think that it’s possible to learn Livewire as you learn Filament, instead of having it as a prerequisite? Also, does Filament kinda solve the need of writing HTML?

KalimeroMK's avatar

@Neneone Filament will create all necessary code when you are building some module you dont need to do anything

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