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Every page in this documentation, in the order it is meant to be read. Each section below is self-contained: start at its first page and the cross-links at the foot of each page carry you through the rest.

New here? Overview → Requirements → Installation → Opening your first panel.

Something is broken? Troubleshooting is symptom-first — find the page named after what you are seeing.

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Introduction ​

What this framework is, what it decides for you, and where it stops.

Getting started ​

From composer require to a panel you can sign into.

Tutorial ​

One project taken from an empty directory to a deployed panel, in eight steps.

How it works ​

Core concepts ​

The machinery every other page assumes: panels, discovery, routing, the request lifecycle.

Building a panel ​

Panels ​

Defining, branding, mounting and gating a panel — and running more than one.

Resources ​

The CRUD unit: a model, its pages, its queries and its abilities.

Forms and schemas ​

Building a form, and how state moves between Vue and the server.

Form fields ​

Every field type, one page each.

Tables ​

Columns, filters, search, sorting, grouping and everything in the toolbar.

Actions ​

Buttons that do something: modals, confirmation, bulk, authorization, transactions.

Relations ​

Editing what hangs off a record — managers, pivots, nested resources.

Infolists ​

Read-only detail views.

Pages and navigation ​

Custom pages, clusters, breadcrumbs, sub-navigation, URLs.

Widgets ​

Dashboard stats, charts, tables and your own Vue.

Application features ​

Authentication and users ​

Login, registration, two-factor, passkeys, profile, and what the panel asks of your user model.

Tenancy ​

Scoping a panel to a tenant — single-database, database-per-tenant, and the security rules.

Notifications and broadcasting ​

Toasts, the notification centre, database notifications, Reverb and Echo.

Making resources findable from the header.

Import and export ​

CSV and XLSX in both directions, queued, with failure reports.

Extending it ​

Frontend customization ​

The published Vue: your own columns, fields, pages, widgets, shell and theme.

Plugins ​

Packaging panel configuration for reuse.

Reference ​

CLI reference ​

Every artisan command, flag by flag.

Configuration reference ​

config/panda-panel.php, middleware, routes, redirects, environment.

Testing ​

The helpers, and what is worth asserting about a panel.

API reference ​

The public classes, grouped by subsystem.

Glossary ​

Every term this documentation uses as if you already knew it, with the page that defines it.

Running it in production ​

Deployment and operations ​

Caching, queues, Octane, storage, monitoring, rollbacks.

Upgrading ​

What the version number promises, what breaks, and the edit that fixes it.

Troubleshooting ​

Symptom-first pages for the failures that actually happen.

Worked examples ​

Recipes ​

Whole features built end to end.

Contributing ​

Working on the package itself.

358 pages. sidebar.md is the same tree collapsed to one entry per section, for a navigation bar.

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