# Starter Kit

Original Josh package contains many pages and components, but all developers may not need them and removing un-wanted pages can be time-consuming. so we came up with starter kit (seeder kit) which contains

only admin panel (no frontend)
authentication & authorization features (i.e. users and groups section)
crud generator
empty dashboard

# Installation

Installation of the starter kit is the same as regular josh, so please refer to regular installation

# Adding pages from Josh

If you are trying to add a page which doesn't have any third-party plugins included (ex: general components) then you can just add that page.

if a page contains, third party plugins included

i.e. you see some code in header_styles or footer_scripts then you may need to add them.

for the sake of this doc, let's assume you want to add select2 plugin.

then you need to do the following steps ( for all plugins, it will be almost same)

# Install Plugin

first copy select2 and select2BootstrapTheme packages from josh package.json and paste into starter kit package.json

Run yarn install which will copy those packages into node_modules folder

Check if the packages are downloaded to node_modules directory

# copying assets to public path

In webpack.mix.js use mix.copy

First copy the vendor directory path in the paths object

var paths = {
    'select2': vendors + 'select2/dist/',
    'select2BootstrapTheme': vendors + 'select2-bootstrap-theme/dist/'
};

copy the plugins you needed to public directory.

mix.copy(paths.select2 + 'css/select2.min.css', destVendors + 'select2/css');

TIP

you can copy the path and the mix.copy from josh webpack.mix.js and paste into starter kit webpack.mix.js

we have added self-explanatory path variable name and for each plugin mix.copy added a comment which has the name of the plugin

Also, copy the necessary custom CSS files to resources/css directory and js files to resources/js/ maintaining path.

Then run npm run dev to copy the plugin files to the public directory.

Then you can use the corresponding page from full josh into starter kit