Quickly Set Up CasbinStarterKits: Laravel, Vue 3 & Tailwind Access Control

Overview

CasbinStarterKits is a beginner-friendly toolkit for PHP‑Casbin, built on Laravel‑Authz and equipped with a Vue 3 front‑end styled with Tailwind CSS.

Casbin is an open‑source access‑control framework that supports many languages (Go, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, .NET, etc.). It provides multiple access‑control models, flexible policy storage (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, AWS S3), and cross‑language consistency.

Features

Role‑Based Access Control (RBAC)

Admin dashboard

Responsive design

Authentication

User management

Role management

Organization management

Menu management

Additional access‑control models

API authorization

Audit logs

Environment Requirements

PHP >= 8.0

Composer package manager

Node.js and npm

MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, or a compatible database

Installation Steps

1. Clone the repository

git clone [email protected]:php-casbin/casbin-starter-kits.git
cd casbin-starter-kits

2. Install backend dependencies

composer install

3. Set up environment configuration

Copy the .env.example file and adjust settings as needed:

cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

4. Run database migrations

php artisan migrate --seed

5. Install frontend dependencies

npm install

6. Start the frontend project

npm run dev

7. Start the backend server

If running inside a Docker container, the host and port were set to allow external access: php artisan serve --host=0.0.0.0 --port=8217 The server output confirms it is listening on http://0.0.0.0:8217.

8. Access the application

Open a browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8217/.

Default accounts

Username: [email protected] Password: admin Username: [email protected] Password:

user

Workbench

Organization Management

Role Management

User Management