Aura CMS

A content management system for Laravel developers. Define your content types as PHP classes — Aura generates the admin panel around them: forms, tables, search, media, and permissions. Built on the TALL stack (Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel, Livewire).

How it works

A resource is an Eloquent model that declares its fields. This class is a complete, working content type:

<?php

namespace App\Aura\Resources;

use Aura\Base\Resource;

class Article extends Resource
{
    public static string $type = 'Article';

    public static ?string $slug = 'article';

    public static function getFields()
    {
        return [
            [
                'type' => 'Aura\\Base\\Fields\\Text',
                'name' => 'Title',
                'slug' => 'title',
                'validation' => 'required|max:255',
            ],
            [
                'type' => 'Aura\\Base\\Fields\\Wysiwyg',
                'name' => 'Content',
                'slug' => 'content',
            ],
            [
                'type' => 'Aura\\Base\\Fields\\BelongsTo',
                'name' => 'Author',
                'slug' => 'author_id',
                'resource' => 'Aura\\Base\\Resources\\User',
            ],
        ];
    }
}

Drop it in app/Aura/Resources and /admin/article serves a full CRUD interface — index table with sorting, filtering and search, create/edit forms with validation, and policy-based permissions. No migration needed: fields are stored as meta by default, and you can move a resource to its own table when it grows.

Features

• 42 field types — text, dates, media, relationships, repeaters, tabs and panels — plus your own via php artisan aura:field
• Table views — list, grid, and kanban, with saved filters and per-user column settings
• Media manager — drag-and-drop uploads with automatic thumbnails
• Roles & permissions — per-resource permissions enforced by policies
• Teams — optional multi-tenancy with automatic scoping of every resource
• Global search — Cmd+K across all resources, with bookmarks and recent pages
• Visual resource editor — edit fields in the browser during local development; changes are written back to your PHP classes
• Plugins — package resources, fields, and pages with php artisan aura:plugin

Requirements

• PHP 8.4+
• Laravel 12 or 13
• Livewire 4

Installation

Aura 1.0 is on Packagist as a beta release. Default Composer stability resolves eminiarts/aura-cms to 0.2.x, so require the 1.0 beta channel explicitly:

composer require eminiarts/aura-cms:^1.0@beta
php artisan aura:install

The interactive installer publishes and configures Aura, connects your application user model, runs the package migrations, publishes the frontend assets, and creates the first administrator as a Global Admin by default. Then log in and open /admin. The installation guide also documents the non-interactive options and every underlying command for scripted or customized installations.

Aura 1.0 is a fresh baseline rather than an automated upgrade from 0.x. Existing 0.x applications should read UPGRADING.md before changing constraints.

Documentation

Full documentation at aura-cms.com/docs — from the 15-minute quick start to the complete field reference.

Working with an AI assistant? The docs are LLM-friendly: aura-cms.com/llms.txt indexes every page, and every page is available as raw markdown by appending .md to its URL.

Testing

composer test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

Please follow the private reporting process in SECURITY.md.

Credits

Built by Emini Arts and all contributors. Aura CMS runs production applications for agencies and startups.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.