Laravel 11 Mini-CRM for Beginners: Video + Repository

Learning Laravel and want to build your first project? I suggest a task I call "Mini CRM" to manage projects/clients/tasks with simple CRUD.

In this tutorial, you will find four things:

• Task description
• Long 1-hour video of me live-coding the solution
• Shorter 10-minute video version of "What you need to know" (for Premium members)
• Link to the GitHub repository (for Premium members)

Task Description

This is the task I'm suggesting for beginners of Laravel.

Intro

• Install Laravel and Laravel Breeze starter kit
• Use plain Blade, no Vue/Livewire is needed in this project

Manage Users

• Change column users.name into separate first_name and last_name
• Use SoftDeletes in all Models
• CRUD for managing users
• Use pagination in this and all other CRUDs
• Seed 10 "fake" users for testing

Introduce Roles

• Install the Spatie Laravel Permission package
• Seed two roles: "admin" and "user"
• Seed one Admin user, Breeze registration should add users with "User" role
• The "Users" CRUD from above should be available only to Admin user

Three More CRUDs

Create three more CRUDs, here are their DB columns:

Clients (all columns are string)

• contact_name
• contact_email
• contact_phone_number
• company_name
• company_address
• company_city
• company_zip
• company_vat

Projects

• title (string)
• description (text)
• user_id (foreign key)
• client_id (foreign key)
• deadline_at (date)
• status: one of the options of 'open', 'in progress', 'blocked', 'cancelled', 'completed'

Tasks

• title (string)
• description (text)
• user_id (foreign key)
• client_id (foreign key)
• project_id (foreign key)
• deadline_at (date)
• status: one of the options of 'open', 'in progress', 'pending', 'waiting client', 'blocked', 'closed'

Create Factories and Seeders for all those tables, seed 20-50 fake records.

Introduce Permissions: The Admin role can manage everything, and the User role can see all entries and create/update them but NOT delete them.

Longer 1-hour Live-Coding Video

So, I've coded this project and decided to release two videos: a longer one for free on YouTube and a quick rundown of "only things you need to know" for Premium members.

Here's the link to the YouTube video.

Quick 10-minute Rundown Video

This shorter video and the repository link are available only for Premium members.