The major changes in 12

@jeffallen I use laravel authentication but use custom authorization, actually RBAC.

Just a couple of examples:

Seeing if user has correct role

    public static function chkRole($role = null)
    {
        $userrole = Auth::user()->role;
        $checkrole = explode(',', $userrole);
        if (in_array($role, $checkrole)) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

Ensuring user sees their own data, if admin can see all.

        $petsearch = $petsearch . "%";
        $query->where('petname', 'like', $petsearch);
        if (Authi::chkRole('admin') === false) {
            $userid = Auth::user()->id;
            $query->where('ownerid', '=', $userid);
        }
        $results = $query->orderBy('petname', 'asc')->paginate(5);
        return $results;

There's more to it, but just a couple of examples.

In some business apps, an admin can view accounting data but cannot modify it. So each app is different as to who can to what.

@Tray2 That will help many who use them. I tried all, including fortify. But I decided to stick with manual authentication from here: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/authentication#authenticating-users

However like I said I had one done in breeze, I kind of liked breeze. But I like manual better.

I just like flexibility.

I still cannot figure why no starter kit for blade, I guess it's fortify or manual.

But blade combined with regular javascript and fetch or axios js is my choice. I used fetch for a while until I finally tried axios, and chose axios js.

Also @jeffallen @martinbean has an article you might like:

https://martinbean.dev/blog/2021/07/29/simple-role-based-authentication-laravel/

@jlrdw I agree with you, I like using breeze.

Saw a tweet about Taylor saying that livewire is blade, and he is correct, not just the plain blade we like. However in the newest installer you can choose any starter kit you want, even third party ones, and I bet there is a load of them out there.

@Tray2 Yes, I was just checking, and there are actually quite a few—and the list keeps growing: https://github.com/tnylea/laravel-new?tab=readme-ov-file#community-templates

@Tray2 its the same blade if you dont create any Livewire components (is Taylors point)

@Snapey Agreed