saas-boilerplate

This is a SaaS boilerplate built on top of the Laravel framework. Built to provide developers with a template to kickoff their SaaS application, without the hustle for repetitive tasks such as user account setup, subscriptions and role management.

folder structure

Inspired by domain-driven approach.

Laravel's main app folder is restructured to: App, Domain and Http.

outline of app folder

• App
  • Console
  • Controllers
  • Exceptions
  • Providers
  • Traits
  • TwoFactor
  • ViewComposers
• Domain
  • Account
  • Auth
    • Events
    • Listeners
    • Mail
    • Rules
  • Projects
  • Subscriptions
  • Teams
  • Users
    • Models
    • Filters
    • Observers
• Http
  • Account
    • Controllers
    • Requests
  • Auth
    • Controllers
    • Requests
  • Middleware
  • Subscriptions
  • Teams
  • Users
    • Policies
    • Resources

features

• Authentication
  • Login / Registration
  • Email Activation
  • Two Factor Login (only when enabled)
• Subscription with Stripe
  • User plans
  • Team plans
• Account (User Account)
  • Profile Update
  • Change Password
  • Two Factor Authentication
  • Subscription
    • Cancel Subscription
    • Resume Subscription
    • Swap Plan
    • Update Card
  • API Tokens
• Single Database Multi-tenancy
• Admin
  • User Management
    • Create Users (and assign role)
    • Manage User Roles
  • Role & Permissions Management
• Developer Panel
  • Manage OAuth Clients
  • Manage Personal Access Tokens
• Other features
  • Filtering (extendable)
  • API access (starter template)

Note: Some features may be subjected to change. Other features may not be listed since they are under development or do not qualify as a standard / main SaaS feature. Some common features will not be listed as well.

Installation

1. Fork, clone or download this repository.

2. Run composer install if its the initial setup or composer update.

3. Setup your environment keys in .env (If .env does not exist then copy / rename .env.example as .env)

4. Run php artisan migrate for initial tables setup.

5. Optional: Run php artisan db:seed --class=RoleTableSeeder to set the initial roles and permissions, then follow step 7 below to assign a user the initial permissions and roles.

6. Optional: To create a root admin; Run php artisan role:assign youremail@example.org admin-root. Substitute youremail@example.org with an existing user email. admin-root is the default root Admin role.

   Note: You must follow step 5 above first to setup the root admin.

Usage

Generating different files in app folder

Channel Make Command

php artisan make:channel \SAAS\App\Broadcasting{name}

Console Make Command

php artisan make:console \SAAS\App\Console\Commands{name}

Exception Make Command

php artisan make:exception \SAAS\App\Exceptions{name}

Job Make Command

php artisan make:job \SAAS\Domain{namespace}\Jobs{name}

Event Make Command

php artisan make:event \SAAS\Domain{namespace}\Events{name}

Listener Make Command

php artisan make:listener \SAAS\Domain{namespace}\Listeners{name}

Mail Make Command

php artisan make:mail \SAAS\Domain{namespace}\Mail{name}

Model Make Command

php artisan make:model \SAAS\Domain{namespace}\Models{name}

Notification Make Command

php artisan make:notification \SAAS\Domain{namespace}\Notifications{name}

Policy Make Command

php artisan make:policy \SAAS\Http{namespace}\Policies{name}

Rule Make Command

php artisan make:rule \SAAS\Domain{namespace}\Rules{name}

Note: Some files can be placed in the app/App folder if they are intended to be used globally

php artisan make:{command} \SAAS\App\{namespace}\{name}

Custom Commands

1. Admin: Assign user a role Use php artisan role:assign <email> <role-slug>: <email> is the user's email and <role-slug> is the slug of the role you wish to assign the user.

Force HTTPS

When pushing the project to a platform or production environment, assets or urls may be broken if the platform enforces HTTPS.

To enable urls to use HTTPS:

Set FORCE_HTTPS variable in .env file to true.

By default FORCE_HTTPS is false.

Note: If FORCE_HTTPS does not exist in your .env, just add it as a new variable and assign a boolean value true or false.

This dynamically tells Laravel to force urls to use HTTPS which is especially handy in fixing or preventing broken assets urls.

Single Database Multi-tenancy

See miracuthbert/laravel-multi-tenancy

Model setup

To start using single databse multi-tenancy call ForTenants trait on a model

use Miracuthbert\Multitenancy\Traits\ForTenants;

class Project extends Model
{
    use ForTenants;
}

Tenants CRUD Operations

Once you have setup the model as show above. Just call CRUD operations directly. Tenant relationships are handled automatically.

$projects = Project::create([
    'name' => 'Project 1'
]);
$projects = Project::get();

Normal CRUD Operations

To perform CRUD operations on models with ForTenants trait can be done by adding withoutForTenants scope when fetching records associated with that model.

$projects = Project::withoutForTenants()->get();

This comes in handy for example in: admin or moderation operations

Routing

All tenant routes are under the routes folder in the tenant.php file.

Note: Tenant routes follow the same structure as other routes

The main reason we place all tenant routes separately is to handle route binding and its much easier to know which routes are for tenants.

libraries & packages

• Main
  • PHP (>=8)
  • Laravel (Minimal 9)
  • Laravel Cashier (can be switched)
• UI (can be switched)
  • Bootstrap (v4)
  • Font awesome
  • Simple Line Icons
  • jQuery
  • VueJs
  • Development
    • nodejs
    • npm

services

• Stripe (payment gateway)
• Authy by Twilio (two factor authentication)

Changes

• Roles and Permissions: See miracuthbert/laravel-roles
• Multi-tenancy: See miracuthbert/laravel-multi-tenancy

Security Vulnerabilities

If you discover a security vulnerability, please send an e-mail to Cuthbert Mirambo via miracuthbert@gmail.com. All security vulnerabilities will be promptly addressed.