Laravel Development
Laravel applications built the way the framework intends — tested, queued, and maintainable years after launch.
Laravel is our primary backend framework and has been for years. It gets a team to a working product quickly, and — more importantly — it stays maintainable, because the conventions mean a developer joining in year three recognises the structure. That advantage disappears the moment a codebase abandons those conventions, which is the state most Laravel rescue projects arrive in.
Who this is for
Companies building a web application, SaaS product or API that needs to last. Teams with an existing Laravel codebase that has become slow or fragile. Businesses on an unsupported Laravel version facing a security problem.
Problems we solve
- Fat controllers. Business logic spread through controllers and views, untestable and duplicated.
- N+1 queries. Missing eager loading turning one page into hundreds of queries.
- Everything synchronous. Email, exports and API calls blocking the request instead of queued.
- Version lock. Stuck on an unsupported release because upgrading was never budgeted.
- No tests. Nothing to catch regressions, so velocity collapses as the codebase grows.
What we build
- Applications structured with form requests, policies, actions and service classes
- Eloquent models with deliberate relationships, indexing and eager loading
- Queued jobs with retries, backoff and failure handling for anything slow
- REST and GraphQL APIs with Sanctum or Passport authentication
- Pest test suites covering the paths that actually matter
- Horizon, Telescope and structured logging for production visibility
- Version upgrades taken incrementally under test coverage
How we work
We follow framework conventions rather than inventing house patterns, because conventions are what make a codebase legible to the next developer. Authorisation goes through policies so access rules live in one place. Anything slow moves to a queue. Query performance is checked against realistic data volumes, not a seed of fifty rows.
Technologies we use
Laravel 12 on PHP 8.3+, MySQL and PostgreSQL, Redis for cache, queues and sessions, Pest for testing, Horizon for queue monitoring, Sanctum for API auth, Docker and GitHub Actions for deployment, with Next.js or Livewire on the front end.
Business benefits
- Fast delivery without the maintenance bill that usually accompanies it
- A large hiring pool — Laravel developers are not scarce
- Test coverage that keeps changes cheap as the codebase grows
- A framework with a predictable release cycle you can plan upgrades around
Common questions
Is Laravel suitable for large applications?
Yes, with discipline. The framework scales; undisciplined code does not, in any framework. Structure, queues and caching are what decide it.
Can you upgrade our old Laravel version?
Usually. We add characterisation tests first so the upgrade is verifiable, then move version by version rather than jumping straight to the latest.
Laravel or Node.js?
Laravel for typical business applications, admin-heavy systems and anything where delivery speed matters. Node for real-time and heavily event-driven workloads. Often both, each doing what it is good at.
Building or rescuing a Laravel app? We will audit it before quoting.