title: Laravel 13 Blade MySQL Starter description: Laravel 13 blade starter with MySQL — deploy in one click on Railway. Zero-config, migrations on deploy, FrankenPHP. tags:

php
laravel 13
blade
mysql

Laravel 13 Blade MySQL Starter

Laravel 13 + Blade + MySQL — a clean, production-ready Laravel starter that deploys on Railway in one click. No configuration needed: the MySQL database is provisioned automatically and migrations run on every deploy.

✨ Why use this template?

🚀 Laravel 13 — the latest stable release, running on PHP 8.4+ with FrankenPHP
🎨 Blade + Tailwind CSS 4 + Vite — modern frontend tooling, no build step to configure
🗄️ MySQL included — Railway provisions the database automatically and injects the connection string (DB_URL)
⚙️ Zero-config deploy — database migrations run automatically on every deploy via Railpack
🛡️ Secure defaults — healthcheck at /up, restart policy, and logs to stdout
📦 Minimal — just the skeleton you need to start building your app

Deploy and Host

Click the button above to deploy this template on Railway. Railway will provision a MySQL database, connect it to your app, run the migrations, and give you a public URL — in about 2 minutes.

What you get

Service	Description
Laravel 13 app	Blade starter served by FrankenPHP
MySQL	Managed database, auto-connected via `DB_URL`

🚀 Local Development

cp .env.example .env
composer install
npm install
npm run build
php artisan serve

📝 Notes

Database: Laravel auto-selects MySQL when DB_URL is set (falls back to SQLite for local dev).
Migrations: Run automatically on every deploy (idempotent).
Healthcheck: /up route (registered in bootstrap/app.php).
Logging: Logs go to stdout, viewable via railway logs.

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Simple, fast routing engine.
Powerful dependency injection container.
Multiple back-ends for session and cache storage.
Expressive, intuitive database ORM.
Database agnostic schema migrations.
Robust background job processing.
Real-time event broadcasting.

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