First hour of a new Filament project
So you've just read through First hour of a new Laravel project, and you have decided to install Filament as an admin panel. Here are the steps I would take to configure a new Filament admin panel.
Unsaved changes alerts
When you have resources with long forms, it can be very painful to lose filled in data after accidentally closing a tab. After enabling this setting, Filament will ask the user for confirmation when they close a form that has changes.
// AppPanelProvider.php public function panel(Panel $panel): Panel { return $panel ... ->unsavedChangesAlerts(); })
Allow password resets
By default, you can't reset your own password in a Filament admin panel. To give your users some autonomy, you can enable this feature.
// AppPanelProvider.php public function panel(Panel $panel): Panel { return $panel ... ->passwordReset(); })
Enabling profile
In a similar vein, you can enable the user profile, so users can change their own email and password.
// AppPanelProvider.php public function panel(Panel $panel): Panel { return $panel ... ->profile(); })
Top navigation
When you're starting out on a new project, you probably won't have that many menu items yet. You may want to enable top navigation to reclaim some horizontal space.
// AppPanelProvider.php public function panel(Panel $panel): Panel { return $panel ... ->topNavigation(); })
Notifications
Most admin panels will send some form of notifications to their admins. By default, Filament will use Livewire's polling feature to check for new notifications. If you need real-time notifications, check out the docs to set up a websocket.
// AppPanelProvider.php public function panel(Panel $panel): Panel { return $panel ... ->databaseNotifications() ->databaseNotificationsPolling('30s'); })
Well, this probably took you less than an hour to configure. Good luck with your new Filament admin panel!