Can I still use Breeze with Laravel 12?

Certainly! Here’s an up-to-date solution based on your needs:

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Yes, you can still use Breeze with Laravel 12—at least as of early June 2024. While the official Laravel documentation for Breeze now encourages using the new Laravel Starter Kits, the Breeze package itself remains compatible with Laravel 12. You can still use the "Blade" (inertia-free) stack, which does not require Vue, React, or Livewire.

Here’s how you can do it:

1. Install Laravel Breeze

First, require Breeze via Composer:

composer require laravel/breeze --dev

2. Scaffold with Blade (No JavaScript Frameworks)

Run the install command for the traditional Blade scaffolding:

php artisan breeze:install blade

This command publishes views and authentication routes using only Blade templates, Tailwind CSS, and Alpine.js.
No Vue, React, or Livewire!

3. Remove Tailwind and Alpine (if you want Bootstrap instead)

The Breeze views come with Tailwind classes by default. To use Bootstrap:

• Replace Tailwind classes in the /resources/views/auth and /resources/views/layouts files with Bootstrap 5 classes.
  (You can do this gradually, or copy in your own Bootstrap-based templates.)
• Remove Tailwind dependencies:
  • Delete tailwind.config.js and postcss.config.js
  • In package.json, remove tailwindcss and postcss, and optionally alpinejs if you don’t want it.
• Install Bootstrap (if desired) via npm:

  npm install bootstrap
  

  Then update your resources/css/app.css and your vite.config.js (or webpack.mix.js if using Laravel Mix) to import Bootstrap CSS.

4. Compile Assets

After making the changes, run:

npm install
npm run build

5. Done!

You’ll have authentication and basic scaffolding, which you can now fully customize to your liking using plain Blade and Bootstrap.

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Summary:
You absolutely can use Breeze’s Blade (no-JS-framework) stack with Laravel 12, then refactor the frontend for Bootstrap or your preferred plain CSS setup. This works as it always has, even if the documentation is less prominent now.

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References:

• laravel/breeze GitHub
• Breeze 2.x compatibility

Feel free to ask for example files or step-by-step for applying Bootstrap!