Fresh Package: Laravel Package Skeleton with Testbench, CI, and Boost Integration

Fresh is a Laravel package skeleton by Mazen Touati. It provides an opinionated package skeleton the provides a package with tests, static analysis, CI, a workbench app, and a Laravel Boost skill template for AI agents. It supports both backend-only and full-stack packages.

Here's what your generated package includes using this skeleton:

PHPUnit, Larastan, Rector, and Pint, with Paratest for parallel runs
A workbench/ app from Orchestra Testbench, so you can boot the package with composer serve and click through it without a host application
A Laravel version switcher, composer switch:l12 and composer switch:l13, for checking both supported majors locally
GitHub Actions for a PHP 8.3 to 8.5 by Laravel 12 and 13 test matrix, Codecov, static analysis, Pint and Rector auto-fixes, and release-please auto-releases
Vue 3, Tailwind v4, Vite, and TypeScript frontend, with its own ESLint, Prettier, Vitest, and type-check workflows
Repository settings: Dependabot, an issue template, a funding file, and a security policy
AI guidelines and skills for the package repo itself, plus an optional Laravel Boost skill stub for the apps that install it

Scaffolding a Package

When using this package skeleton to create your package, the wizard runs on composer install:

composer create-project sunchayn/fresh-package my-package
cd my-package

The installation prompts collects package details and which features you want to use. Every prompt has a flag, so you can skip the wizard in a script or a CI job:

php .template/init template:init --no-interaction \
  --package-name=acme/webhooks \
  --vendor-namespace=Acme \
  --class-name=Webhooks \
  --config --routes --migrations --commands \
  --no-blade --no-translations --no-facade --no-assets \
  --no-vue --no-funding

Directory Layout

The Fresh skeleton groups code by domain rather than by type:

src/
  Http/Greeting/
    Controllers/GreetingController.php
    Requests/GreetingRequest.php
    Resources/GreetingResource.php
  Modules/Greeting/
    Actions/BuildGreetingAction.php
    DataTransferObjects/GreetingData.php
    Enums/GreetingTone.php

If you keep the AI support option, the bundled scaffold-module skill enforces the same layout when an agent adds a feature, and create-dto-action, write-php-test, and task-finalization skills cover the rest of a change.

Fresh includes a separate Boost skill option that adds a resources/boost/skills/ stub. Apps that install your package will get package guidelines and skills in Laravel Boost.