■ Laravel Development & Modernisation

Four production Laravel platforms. Four very different shapes.

We reach for Laravel when the build is too transactional and rules-heavy for WordPress and too business-domain-specific for a generic Node API. The portfolio below is the argument.

Ritesh Agarwal, lead architect at Appycodes

■ Talk to the lead architect

ERP, contracts portal, tendering, or an old Laravel codebase that needs modernising? Bring it directly to Ritesh — no SDR, no qualification call.

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■ Portfolio

Same framework. Four domains. Different decisions in each.

Ontick

Event ticketing + staff ops

230K+

tickets booked

£90K+

platform sales

Stack

Laravel + Vue.js + MySQL

Customer-facing ticketing plus a staff check-in app (Vite + React 18) sharing the design system. Two surfaces, one Laravel API.

Professional Energy Services (PES)

Custom ERP · energy brokerage

$1M+

tenders flowing through

800+

broker hours saved

Stack

Laravel + Vue.js + MySQL

Tenders, CRM, accounting — three modules that off-the-shelf ERPs don't model. Tender ingestion across the UK energy market is the domain core.

All White Laser

Contracts + payments portal

$5M

in contracts

500

contract docs

Stack

Laravel + WordPress + PHP

Standalone PHP migration scripts deliberately not loading WordPress — to dodge plugin Guzzle conflicts on monthly R2 cron syncs.

Rail.One

Corporate rebuild + change management

DE / EN

bilingual

2

pauses survived

Stack

Next.js + Sanity (Laravel-adjacent governance)

Discipline as a feature — formal change-request quotation retroactively captured mid-build scope creep without losing the relationship.

■ What you get

Six engagement shapes.

We don't do every Laravel project — only the ones where the domain is interesting and the engagement is multi-year. Below is the actual menu.

01

Greenfield Laravel builds

ERPs, CRMs, internal platforms, B2B portals. Where business logic is the product.

02

Laravel modernisation

Upgrades from old Laravel versions. Replacing dying packages. Queue/job architecture. Sanctum auth. Forge deployment pipelines.

03

Laravel + frontend pairings

Laravel + Vue.js, Laravel + Inertia, Laravel + Livewire, or Laravel headless behind a Next.js frontend. Pick the right one for the surface.

04

Domain-heavy work

Tendering, contracts, billing reconciliation, multi-tenant business logic. The kind of model the framework was built to express.

05

Forge + Cloudflare deployment

Standalone migration scripts (R2 / S3) that don't load Laravel or WordPress so they survive plugin conflicts. Database clone workflows.

06

Change-management as engineering

Formal change-request quotations, retroactive scope capture, mid-build pause recovery. The non-code work that keeps the project shippable.

▼ The Laravel Decision Matrix

When to reach for Laravel — and when not to.

X-axis: transactional complexity. Y-axis: domain rule density. Dots plot where each of our Laravel builds sits.

■ Good fit if

Builds that are too transactional for WordPress and too business-domain-specific for a generic Node API
Existing Laravel codebases on old versions needing modernisation, not rewrites
B2B platforms with tendering, contracts, or commission-reconciliation as the core
Multi-year engagements where engineering discipline matters more than weekly velocity

■ Probably not a fit

Marketing sites or pure CMS work — pick WordPress or Next.js + Sanity
Real-time collaboration apps with heavy websocket / CRDT needs — pick Node
Mobile-first apps where backend is mostly auth + storage — pick Supabase or Firebase

■ Stack we ship on

Laravel core, paired with whatever the surface needs.

Framework

Laravel (current LTS) · Sanctum · Horizon · queues

Frontend

Vue.js · Inertia · Livewire · Next.js (headless)

Data

MySQL · Redis cache · queue backends

Deploy

Laravel Forge · Cloudflare · standalone PHP migration scripts

The discipline isn't writing the code. It's writing the change-request quote when the client comes back after the pause.
— from a Rail.One post-mortem

■ If you have one of these shapes

Bring the domain model. We'll tell you within a call whether Laravel is the right call.

Talk to a Laravel engineer

■ Other services

We build a lot more than this.

Explore the rest of what we build.

SaaS Web App Development

MVP to production builds, multi-tenant, billing, AI features.

React Native App Development

iOS + Android in one codebase. Push, offline, OTA updates.

Web App to Native Mobile App

Convert your Lovable / Claude / Bolt web app to React Native or Flutter — backend reused.

Technical SEO for SaaS

Prerender, schema, Core Web Vitals — engineering-led SEO.

Custom WordPress Development

B2B marketplaces, membership sites, headless WordPress.

Shopify Development Services

Custom themes, migration to Shopify, Shopify apps, supplier-feed automation.

Custom WooCommerce Development

B2B wholesale, high-SKU catalogues, WooCommerce Subscriptions, Shopify-to-Woo migrations.

Maintenance & Support

Post-launch stability, security, monthly improvements.

AI App Completion

Take an AI-built prototype to a production-ready product.

AI Prototype to Native App

Convert AI-built web prototypes into native mobile apps.

App Store Launch

Submit, configure and optimise for App Store + Play Store.

Tech Stack Migration

Modernise legacy systems with zero-downtime migrations.

White Label Development

Engineering capacity for agencies, under your brand.

Startup Launch Support

From idea to live product — design, build, launch, growth.

API & Integration

Custom REST/GraphQL APIs and third-party integrations.

AI SaaS Product Development

Multi-tenant AI SaaS with subscriptions and admin dashboards.

B2B Marketplace Development

Marketplaces with credit, KYC, and trust infrastructure baked in.

Custom LMS Development

Customised Moodle deployments and bespoke Moodle mobile apps.

Membership & WooCommerce Subscriptions

Subscription recovery, dunning, migrations, combinatorial billing matrices.

Shopify Migration

Magento, WordPress, BigCommerce → Shopify. Redirect-engineering first.

WordPress Security & Malware Removal

Forensic incident response — Magecart, backdoors, DDoS, GDPR Art. 33.

Stripe Billing Engineering

Webhooks, metering, proration, dunning, multi-currency, reconciliation.

Cloudflare Edge Engineering

Workers, R2, WAF, Bulk Redirects. The full surface, not just the orange cloud.

Internal Tools & Admin Dashboards

Tender automation, contract operations, compliance calendars, calculators.

Supabase Development

RLS, multi-role auth, production-hardening Lovable / Bolt / v0 prototypes.

Headless WordPress & WooCommerce

WP + Next.js with preview, ISR, auth handoff, media pipeline, search.

Sanity CMS Development

Schema-first builds, multilingual setups, migrations from WP / Contentful / Strapi.

Vue.js & Nuxt Development

Four production Vue platforms. Vue + Laravel as the default pairing.

WordPress Performance Optimisation

nginx, PHP-FPM, slow-query analysis, plugin audit. Diagnostic engineering, not plugin installs.

Custom WordPress Plugin Development

Surgical plugin work — namespaced, idempotent, version-controlled. Not functions.php.

Knowledge Base & Community Platforms

KB + forum + adjacent surfaces. Search, version-aware routing, role-based visibility.

Event Ticketing Platforms

Multi-day festivals, white-label venue groups, offline-capable door-staff apps.

AI Chatbot, RAG & Agent

Production RAG with chunking, hybrid retrieval, reranking, grounding, eval.

Workflow Automation

Make.com, n8n, Zapier, and custom Node workers — chosen by volume.

Programmatic SEO Engineering

Calculator- and location-driven SEO surfaces with real data and SSR.

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