MrCatz DataTable
DataTable + Form Builder for Laravel Livewire — build complete admin pages in minutes.
📖 Full documentation → 🎮 Live demo →
What is this?
A complete, opinionated DataTable + CRUD framework for Laravel + Livewire applications. Bundles everything you typically rebuild from scratch on every admin page — pagination, sorting, filtering, search, inline editing, bulk actions, expandable rows, exports, and a programmatic Form Builder — into a single composable API.
Think of it as "Filament's CRUD productivity, but you keep full control over your stack." You choose your Tailwind version, your DaisyUI theme, your Livewire flavor — MrCatz slots into your existing Laravel app instead of replacing it.
Highlights
- ⚡ CRUD in minutes —
php artisan mrcatz:make Product --path=Adminscaffolds everything - 🔍 Smart search — multi-keyword highlighting, per-column relevance scoring, typo tolerance, optional Meilisearch driver (beta)
- 🎯 Powerful filters — select, callback, dependent, and full date / date-range filters with operator support
- ✏️ Inline editing — click any cell to edit, with validation rules, keyboard navigation, per-row gating
- 📊 PDF, CSV & Excel export — built-in styling, fully customizable layouts
- 🧱 Form Builder — define add/edit forms in PHP with chainable modifiers, sections, conditional fields
- ☑️ Bulk actions & expandable rows
- 📱 Fully responsive — adapts cleanly from desktop tables to mobile card layouts out of the box
- 🎨 Themed via DaisyUI — works with any DaisyUI theme, full control over colors
Quick install
composer require mrcatz/datatable
Wire your base layout. In your app's base layout (usually layouts/app.blade.php), add these three directives before </body>. All three are required — without them the datatable, form modal, and toast notifications silently fail.
{{-- resources/views/layouts/app.blade.php --}}
<body>
{{-- ... your app content ... --}}
@include('mrcatz::components.ui.notification')
@livewireScripts
@stack('scripts')
</body>
Using Jetstream, Breeze, or Filament? Your layout likely already has
@livewireScriptsand@stack('scripts')— you only need to add the notification include.
Add the package's blade path to your Tailwind content scan:
/* resources/css/app.css (Tailwind v4) */
@source '../../vendor/mrcatz/**/*.blade.php';
Then generate your first CRUD page:
php artisan mrcatz:make Product --path=Admin
Add a route and you're done:
Route::get('/admin/products', \App\Livewire\Admin\Product\ProductPage::class);
For the full setup walkthrough — including optional Excel/PDF export, Meilisearch, Docker, and theming — see the Quick Start guide.
Documentation
The complete reference, with code samples and live demos for every feature, is hosted at datatable.catzoid.tech.
| Section | What's covered |
|---|---|
| Getting Started | Introduction, installation, quick-start |
| Core Features | Columns, filters, search, sorting, pagination |
| Editing & Actions | Inline editing, bulk actions, expandable rows |
| Form Builder | Programmatic forms with chainable modifiers |
| Export | PDF, CSV & Excel with custom layouts |
| Advanced Search | Per-column scoring, typo tolerance, Meilisearch (beta) |
| Customization | Icons, localization, theming |
| Deployment | Docker patterns for vendor blade scanning |
Requirements
- PHP 8.1+
- Laravel 11.x / 12.x / 13.x
- Livewire 3.x / 4.x
- Tailwind CSS v3 or v4
- DaisyUI v4 or v5
Optional dependencies
composer require maatwebsite/excel # CSV & Excel export
composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf # PDF export
composer require laravel/scout meilisearch/meilisearch-php # Meilisearch search driver (beta)
Built with Claude
A large portion of this package — and its documentation site — was built collaboratively with Anthropic's Claude. The maintainer focused on architecture decisions, requirements, and design trade-offs; Claude handled most of the implementation, tests, and docs writing. A reminder that AI-assisted development, when guided well, multiplies what one developer can ship.
Issues & contributions
Bug reports and feature requests welcome at github.com/mrc4tz/mrcatz-datatables/issues.