The Four Starter Kits Compared

The four official kits share one backend: Fortify 1,761 , Tailwind CSS 5,202 , the same actions, optional teams, and simple, card or split authentication layouts. Only the frontend differs:

The official Laravel 13 2,157 starter kits (September 2026)
Kit Built on Components Suits
React 7,897 Inertia 3 515,106 , React 19, TypeScript shadcn/ui 77,293 Teams already on React
Svelte 36,701 Inertia 3, Svelte 5, TypeScript shadcn-svelte Teams already on Svelte
Vue 5,482 Inertia 3, Vue 3 Composition API shadcn-vue Teams already on Vue
Livewire 2,157 Livewire 4 and Blade Flux UI PHP-first teams, no SPA

Each kit has a WorkOS 19,742 AuthKit variant for social login, passkeys, Magic Auth and SSO (free to one million monthly active users); it needs a WorkOS account, so it was not run here. --teams adds personal teams and --using=vendor/kit installs a community kit. Plain Blade has no official kit: use Fortify with your own views, or the Auth facade (Manually Authenticating Users).