Laravel
Building a Research Portfolio CMS with Laravel 12
May 31, 2026 · 1 min read · 22 views
This site is itself a case study in backend architecture: Laravel 12, MySQL, Spatie's roles and permissions package, and a fully custom Tailwind/Alpine.js admin panel rather than an off-the-shelf theme.
In this post I walk through the schema design behind the CMS that powers every page on this site.