In Laravel 5.5 there will be an artisan command for preseting the frontend framework stuff. If you use

php artisan preset none

you won't have that vue/react stuff in your application. For more information please see the Laravel Documentation.

And for the Controller+View stuff I suggest to simply delete the files. ;-)

You could strip everything out to make your own barebones repo and clone that when you're creating a new app.

You could strip everything out to make your own barebones repo and clone that when you're creating a new app.

I think that's what I'll do. I was just wondering whether anyone else had already done this.

Thanks!

Or better yet, you can simply go with Lumen: https://lumen.laravel.com/

It's still Laravel but purposely designed to be very minimal. Thus called a micro-framework