Filament v5 ships a native register page. Some plugins ignore it and roll their own controller. Here's how we added captcha, honeypot, role assignment, and event bridging — entirely through Filament's documented hooks, without touching register() itself. Filament is one of the best backend frameworks for Laravel. It builds admin panels fast, looks great out of the box, and is deeply extensible. But most non-trivial projects don't stop at the backend. If you're building a SaaS, a web app with a public-facing portion, or anything with real users signing up, you eventually need authentication that lives outside the admin shell. A common answer is to reach for one of Laravel's official starter kits. The modern lineup — React, Vue, and Livewire flavours, all with auth scaffolding baked in — is the path most teams take today, and earlier kits like Breeze and Jetstream from the Laravel 10.x era are still maintained and widely deployed.…