How to add HUD Theme to Laravel 11 skeleton from Github

Go to Github and download the latest Laravel 11 (11.2.1 as I write). Unzip it somewhere. In another tab/window open up the HUD theme. Then make the following modifications:

[copy new from hud_startup into laravel_11 folder]
config/sidebar.php
public/assets
public/images
resources/js/demo
resources/lang
resources/scss
resources/views/errors
resources/views/layout
resources/views/pages
resources/views/partial
tests/CreatesApplication.php
.styleci.yml
server.php

[create new by copying from laravel_11 file '.env.example']
.env

[delete existing laravel_11 file or folder; not used]
resources/views/welcome.blade.php
storage/app/private
vite.config.js

[overwrite existing laravel_11 file with same file from hud_startup]
resources/js/app.js
routes/web.php
storage/app/.gitignore
tests/TestCase.php

[keep laravel_11 file, ignore hud_startup version for now (add auth later)]
composer.json

[files/folders added programmatically]
vendor --> this gets added by 'composer install'
node_modules --> this gets added by 'npm install'
database/database.sqlite --> this gets added by 'php artisan migrate'

If you make these changes, you will have a complete Laravel 11 version of the HUD theme. You can easily see how to expand for the full demo theme. Note that last command 'php artisan migrate'. If you forget to run this, you will see an error that database.sqlite doesn't exist. Simply run the initial migration command, then 'php artisan serve' as usual, and you should see the HUD Startup Theme running.