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I am trying to find the best admin panel for Laravel and I found that those two are the best free ones (if there are others, please share them with us), so for those who tried both Filamentphp and Laravel Orchid, please share your experience, what are the cons and pros of each one. Which is more flexible (you can do more)? Which is best documented?
I have tried Backpack, Orchid and Filament. I can suggest you to use Filament if you need to setup quick admin panel. Use Orchid if you like to create a admin panel in a SPA manner, loads very fast and feels smooth. But for basic task you have to write some code where in Filament most of things are automatic.
I don't like Filament because it requires Livewire. To me, such an admin panel should work with any of laravels elements. And eloquent is needed, some here write some regular queries, so it should work with straight PDO as well, the getPdo() instance.
I generally write my own admin panel or landing pages.
Just my opinion.
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