Modern Laravel — Laravel 12, Inertia, React, Octane and queues — built and shipped by senior engineers in Australia and New Zealand. Not Blade-and-jQuery legacy, and not offshore body-shop volume on an AU domain.
Laravel is the right choice for a lot of products, and the wrong choice for some. These are the situations where bringing in a senior Laravel team makes the most difference.
A Blade-and-jQuery codebase that worked for years is now slowing every release down. The replatform has to happen without freezing the product roadmap.
Greenfield product, modern stack, and a small team that needs to ship to paying customers fast — without painting itself into an architectural corner in year two.
Your team is good but stretched. You want experienced Laravel engineers contributing to the same repo, not a separate vendor team running a parallel project.
The framework is years behind, security patches stopped, and every dependency upgrade is a gamble. The upgrade has to happen under live traffic, without losing features along the way.
The current codebase has outgrown its origins. You want a modern Laravel application with a clear architecture, real tests, and a path your team can actually maintain.
Laravel has moved a long way from the Blade-and-jQuery applications most buyers picture. We build on the modern stack — and we modernise the codebases that have not caught up yet.
Laravel 12 with Inertia, React, TypeScript, Octane and SSR — not Blade and jQuery. The same stack we ship on production sites, including this one.
Queues, scheduled jobs, Pulse and Telescope for visibility, Pest for tests, and a React front end that talks to Laravel through Inertia. One team, one repo, one deploy.
Senior engineers who have shipped Laravel applications still running years later. No "hire a dedicated developer in 24 hours" — we take on work we can actually do well.
Stale Laravel 5/6/7 codebases, vanilla PHP, WordPress and CodeIgniter migrations. Upgraded under live traffic, in slices, without freezing the roadmap.
We build, use and contribute to open-source Laravel packages. The same engineers who write your application code also follow the framework as it evolves.
The engineers who write the code are the same ones in your standups, working in your timezone. Not a local domain with a global delivery floor — actually based in Australia and New Zealand.
A five-step path from the codebase you have today to a modern Laravel application your team can actually maintain — whether the starting point is greenfield, legacy Laravel, or vanilla PHP.
Read the codebase, understand the constraints, and map the gap between where the application is today and where it needs to be. Honest answers, not sales answers.
A delivery plan with versioned milestones — Laravel version target, modernisation slices, and the rollout order. Reviewed with your engineers, not handed to them.
Greenfield Laravel 12 + Inertia + React, or a stepwise upgrade of the existing app under live traffic. Pest tests, Pint and PHPStan running on every change.
Deploy to Forge or Vapor, with Octane, queues, Pulse and structured logging in place. Releases that go out without paging an engineer at midnight.
Stay on for framework upgrades, observability tuning and roadmap delivery — or hand off cleanly to your team with documentation that matches the running system.
Most buyers picture Laravel as Blade templates and jQuery. The modern stack is a different product. Here is how the two compare in practice.
| Modern Laravel (Inertia + React + Octane) | Legacy Laravel (Blade + jQuery) | |
|---|---|---|
| Front end | React + TypeScript with SSR through Inertia | Blade templates with sprinkled jQuery and partials |
| Performance | Octane workers, Redis, queues and Horizon | PHP-FPM per request, queues bolted on later |
| Testing | Pest, PHPStan and CI on every change | PHPUnit if any, often skipped under deadline pressure |
| Observability | Pulse, Telescope and structured logs by default | Server logs, ad-hoc dashboards and grep |
| Upgrade path | Tracks the framework — yearly major versions absorbed | Stuck on Laravel 5/6/7 with security patches expired |
A focused, versioned stack we run in production — including on this site. We pick tools that the framework treats as first-class, not bespoke replacements for them.
We work across all four, so this is a real comparison rather than a sales answer. Laravel wins when you want a batteries-included framework with a deep first-party ecosystem — queues, scheduling, broadcasting, Octane, Pulse, Forge, Vapor — and a senior PHP talent pool in Australia and New Zealand. Rails is a strong alternative when the team is already Ruby-fluent. Node and Django are better fits for specific workloads. We will tell you when Laravel is the wrong call.
Yes. Multi-version upgrades are one of the most common engagements we take on. We start with an audit of the current codebase, dependencies and database, plan the upgrade in slices, and run the work under live traffic with Pest tests and feature flags. The result is a supported framework, modern PHP, and a codebase your team can actually maintain.
We work with non-Laravel PHP when the goal is to modernise onto Laravel. We have moved vanilla PHP, WordPress and CodeIgniter applications onto Laravel 12 + Inertia in slices, preserving URLs, data and integrations along the way. We do not take on long-term maintenance of legacy stacks for their own sake — the goal is always a modern, maintainable application at the end.
Yes. Our engineers are based in Australia and New Zealand, working in your timezone — not an offshore delivery centre operating under an AU domain. They join your standups, work in your repo, and follow your review and release process. No parallel vendor team, no separate Slack workspace. When the engagement ends your team has the code, the documentation and the institutional knowledge — not us.
You do. All Laravel code, migrations, infrastructure-as-code, schemas, tests and documentation belong entirely to your organisation from day one. No proprietary frameworks, no licensed components, no lock-in.
Laravel 12 on PHP 8.4, with Inertia, React 19, TypeScript and Tailwind v4 on the front end, Octane for performance, Pest for tests, Pint and PHPStan for static analysis, and Pulse and Telescope for observability. This site runs on the same stack — we ship what we recommend.
Tell us where you're headed and we'll figure out the best way to get you there.