Every new Laravel website project seemed to start the same way.

Create pages. Build a blog system. Add media management. Create menus. Set up roles and permissions. Add SEO fields. Repeat.

I enjoy working with Laravel, but I realized I was rebuilding the same CMS foundations over and over again.

I also tried using WordPress for some projects. It's great for getting started quickly, but once projects become more custom and application-like, I often found myself fighting plugins, limitations, and architectural decisions that didn't fit the project.

At some point, I asked myself a simple question: