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In general, these starter templates get out of sync fairly quickly. It's hard to keep them up to date with all the trends of today. Also, a start template might have a lot of stuff you don't need which is not ideal.
My best bet is looking for an example project or template and making that more modern for your current use case. There is no one way to go in most cases.
I found this template which is pretty up to date: https://github.com/pppalanikumar/Laravel-5.7-Angular-6