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Filament is installed in the existing Laravel project. Ideally, before Filament, you should have the database migrations/models/seeders, and then Filament would build the admin panels and forms for that data.

So, first, let's prepare a simple Laravel project.

New Laravel Project with One Model

So, I've created a new Laravel 12 project:

laravel new filament3-course

The wizard will ask for a starter kit. Choose None.

All other choices are your personal preferences.

Next, we create a Model + Migration for one simple DB table "products", for now:

php artisan make:model Product -m

Migration

Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    $table->string('name');
    $table->integer('price');
    $table->timestamps();
});

Next, we run those migrations:

php artisan migrate

In the Model, we add those columns as fillables:

app/Models/Product.php

class Product extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = ['name', 'price'];
}

And that's it. Laravel project is ready. Now, let's install Filament to manage those products.

Filament Installation

According to the official docs, there are two Terminal commands you need to run:

composer require filament/filament:"^3.3" -W
php artisan filament:install --panels

You can run them one by one or together in one go.

The wizard will ask one question: what...