Backend Engineering

Two kinds of Laravel work

Laravel work tends to arrive in two shapes. One is “we’re three versions behind and scared to touch it”. The other is a new product where Laravel is the right engine under a modern front end. Both get the same treatment. Business rules live in plain, tested classes and the framework is kept to the edges. The upgrade path never leaves the app undeployable for more than a day.

Laravel, without the framework tax

Laravel gets teams moving quickly. It also makes it easy to end up with business rules spread across controllers, jobs and blade templates. We keep domain logic in plain, testable classes and let the framework handle transport, so the codebase stays readable at year three.

Rescue and upgrade work

Stuck on an end-of-life release? We do incremental upgrades behind a passing test suite. Dependency audit first, then the framework, then the deprecations, with a rollback path at every step.

Operations

Queues with retry semantics you can reason about. Scheduled work that reports its own failures. Static analysis in CI, so regressions surface before review.

The stack, when you want the detail

Laravel is the framework we reach for most often. It has a page of its own covering upgrades, inherited codebases and operations in detail: Laravel development services. Where the language rather than the framework is the question — PHP 8 migrations, framework-free codebases, security audits — see PHP development services.

Laravel behind a modern front end

Laravel is frequently the engine under something that does not look like a Laravel application. A static-first marketing site, a real-time 3D experience, a React dashboard, a mobile client. We keep it that way deliberately. Laravel owns data, authorisation, jobs and billing behind a documented API. The presentation layer is free to be whatever the brief needs. It also means the front end can be rebuilt without touching the business rules.

Which Laravel versions do you support?

Any version still receiving security fixes for new work, and anything at all for upgrade work — the older it is, the more the sequenced approach matters.

Can you upgrade us without freezing new features?

Yes. Each hop is merged and deployed on its own, so feature work continues on the same branch between hops. A six-week freeze is the thing we are trying to avoid.

Do you work with our in-house team or replace it?

With. Most Laravel engagements pair us with an existing team; we leave the codebase more readable than we found it and the decisions written down for the people who stay.