Custom Laravel Development
Laravel applications built and maintained by people who will still be able to explain them a year later — including upgrades for the version you are stranded on.
Overview
The hard part is usually the version you are stuck on.
Laravel moves quickly, and applications that were current three years ago are often several major versions behind, sitting on a PHP release that no longer receives security patches. The upgrade keeps getting deferred because nobody can predict what it will break — and each deferral makes the eventual jump larger and riskier.
We do both halves: new applications built cleanly, and upgrades of the ones that have drifted. Upgrades start with a test suite, because upgrading an application you cannot verify is how a two-week job becomes a two-month one. If the existing suite is thin, building enough coverage to make the upgrade safe is part of the work rather than a separate project.
Capabilities
What's included
- Custom application developmentLine-of-business applications, portals, and internal tools built on Laravel.
- Version & PHP upgradesOff end-of-life Laravel and PHP releases, incrementally, with tests at each step.
- API developmentVersioned REST or GraphQL APIs with authentication, rate limiting, and real documentation.
- Queues & scheduled workBackground jobs, retries, and failure handling that surfaces problems instead of swallowing them.
- Admin panelsFilament or Nova back offices so staff are not editing records in the database.
- Test coveragePest or PHPUnit suites, run in CI on every change.
How We Work
Our approach
- 01
Read the code
An honest assessment of what exists, what it depends on, and what the real risks are.
- 02
Safety net first
Enough test coverage to change the application with confidence, before changing it.
- 03
Incremental delivery
Small, reviewable changes shipped through CI — not a long-lived branch merged at the end.
- 04
Handover
Documentation, environment setup, and a runbook, so another developer can pick it up.
What You Get
Commitments
In your repository and your accounts from week one.
Automated tests run before anything merges.
Scoped and priced before any build commitment.
Common Questions
Questions we get asked
Our Laravel app is several versions behind. Is it worth upgrading or rebuilding?
Usually upgrading, and usually cheaper than people expect. We assess first and give you both numbers — a rebuild is occasionally the right call, but it is the more expensive default that gets chosen too often.
Can you take over an application another agency built?
Yes. We start by reading the code and telling you what we find, including anything we think you should know about how it was built.
Do you work with our existing developers?
Regularly. That can mean handling the upgrade while your team continues feature work, pairing with your developers on the parts of the framework they have not used, or reviewing pull requests rather than taking over. We fit around how your team works, and the aim is that they are more capable at the end than at the start.
Tell us about
your Laravel app.
Tell us what you have and what it needs to do. We respond within one business day with a scope and a price.