Laravel is a powerful PHP framework that provides a solid foundation for developing web applications. Filament is an open-source, elegant admin panel and form builder for Laravel that simplifies creating admin interfaces. This guide will walk you through building a robust admin panel using the latest versions of Filament and Laravel.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, ensure you have the following installed on your development machine:

• PHP >= 8.0
• Composer
• Node.js and NPM
• MySQL or any other database supported by Laravel

Step 1: Setting Up a New Laravel Project

First, create a new Laravel project using Composer:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel filament-admin
cd filament-admin

Next, set up your environment variables. Rename the .env.example file to .env and update the database configuration with your credentials:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=filament_db
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=your_password

Run the following command to generate an application key and migrate the default Laravel tables:

php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate

php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate