Engineering Stacks

Laravel Development

Laravel for applications that need to be built quickly and then maintained for years. The conventions are the point: a developer who has not seen your codebase can still find their way around it.

Convention as a handover strategy

The reason we reach for Laravel on business applications is not the feature list — it is that a Laravel project looks like every other Laravel project. When you eventually hire in-house or move to another studio, that similarity is worth more than any amount of clever architecture.

The parts people skip

Queues for anything slow, scheduled tasks with monitoring, database transactions around multi-step writes, and a test suite that runs in CI. These are the things that separate a Laravel application that scales from one that starts timing out the month it gets busy.

What the engagement includes

  • Application build

    Models, policies, services and a sane directory structure.

  • Admin interface

    Filament or a custom panel your team can actually operate.

  • Queues and scheduling

    Background work, retries and failure alerts.

  • API layer

    Sanctum or Passport, versioned and documented.

  • Test suite

    Feature and unit tests running in CI on every push.

  • Deployment

    Zero-downtime releases, migrations and rollback.

Technologies we use

  • Laravel
  • PHP 8
  • Livewire
  • Filament
  • Inertia.js
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Horizon
  • Pest
  • Docker

Frequently asked questions

Why Laravel over a JavaScript backend?

For CRUD-heavy business applications — admin panels, portals, booking systems, internal tools — Laravel gets you further faster, and the hosting is cheaper and simpler. For real-time or heavily event-driven systems we would look at Node instead.

Can Laravel handle our traffic?

Almost certainly. Laravel applications serve very large sites; performance problems are nearly always database queries, missing caching or synchronous work that belongs in a queue — none of which are framework limits.

Do you use Livewire or a separate front-end?

Livewire or Inertia when the interface is essentially server-driven, which covers most admin and portal work and avoids maintaining two applications. A separate React front-end when the interface is genuinely app-like or a mobile client shares the API.

Can you upgrade our old Laravel version?

Yes. Version-by-version upgrades with the test suite as the safety net, plus the dependency and PHP-version work that usually needs to happen alongside.