ademers/craft-starter
A Craft CMS starter project by Andrea DeMers.
Maintainers
1.4.4
2022-05-23 19:56 UTC
Requires
- craftcms/cms: 3.7.43
- craftcms/contact-form: 2.5.1
- craftcms/redactor: 2.10.8
- nystudio107/craft-minify: 1.2.11
- nystudio107/craft-scripts: 1.2.10
- nystudio107/craft-seomatic: 3.4.30
- nystudio107/craft-vite: 1.0.25
- putyourlightson/craft-sprig: 1.13.0
- vlucas/phpdotenv: ^3.4.0
- yiisoft/yii2-redis: ^2.0
Requires (Dev)
None
Suggests
None
Provides
None
Conflicts
None
Replaces
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This package is auto-updated.
Last update: 2026-06-26 20:58:35 UTC
README
A Craft CMS starter project by Andrea DeMers.
Content Management System (CMS)
Craft CMS Plugins
- Contact Form
fromNamefield set to required via a custom Site Module
- Minify
- Redactor
- SEOmatic
- Sprig
- Vite
PHP Packages
Front-end
Build Tools
CSS
- Tailwind CSS
- Tailwind CSS Aspec Ratio plugin
- Tailwind CSS Forms Plugin
- Tailwind CSS Typography Plugin
- Tailwind UI (commercial license required)
JavaScript
Requirements
- Craft CMS server requirements
- Craft CMS control panel browser requirements
- Composer PHP dependency manager 1.3.0 or later
Local Dev
This Craft Starter project is configured to use Craft Nitro 2.x as the local development environment.
- Craft Nitro 2.x
- PHP 8.0.16 for future compatibility with Craft 4. See Upgrading from Craft 3 docs
- MySQL 5.7.33. (May change to 8.x in near future)
- Craft Nitro 2.x Mailhog for email
- Craft Nitro 2.x Redis for caching
Installation
- To create a new project, run
composer create-project ademers/craft-starter <Path>, substituting<Path>with the path where Composer should create the project - Create a database as per the instructions in the Craft documentation
- Set up your web server as per the instructions in the Craft documentation
- Duplicate the
.env.examplefile in the project root and rename it to.env - Run the Craft setup wizard
./craft setupand answer the questions when prompted - Access your new Craft website from your web browser
- Do a little dance 💃
Todo
- Prep for Craft 4.
- Get Vite critical CSS working with Craft Nitro
- Get Vite Favicon generation working with Craft Nitro
- Add a Craft custom site module as per Enhancing a Craft CMS 3 Website with a Custom Module article
- Update installation instructions to include Nitro & Packagist versions
- Replace Vue.js with Alpine.js as default JavaScript framework
- Add installation instructions
License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see License file for more information