Can Laravel handle real traffic?

Yes, with the usual work any stack needs: caching, queued background jobs, database indexing, and horizontal scaling. Where Laravel is genuinely the wrong tool is sustained real-time connections, and we would point you at Node.js for that piece.

Can you take over an existing Laravel app?

Regularly. We start with an audit covering dependencies, Laravel version, test coverage, and security, then give you a written assessment before quoting. Taking over someone else’s codebase is normal work for us, not an exception we tolerate.

Should our front end be Livewire or Vue and React?

Livewire keeps everything in PHP and suits admin panels and forms where the interactivity is modest. Vue or React through Inertia is better when the interface is the product. We pick per project, and sometimes use both in different areas of one app.

What about our existing WordPress site?

They can coexist. WordPress often stays as the marketing site and blog while Laravel handles the application, sharing a domain and design. Rebuilding a working content site in Laravel is usually spending money for no clear return.

PHP & Laravel
Development Services

Stateside Digitals provides PHP and Laravel development services, building business platforms, SaaS products, and APIs, and bringing older PHP applications up to something your team can safely work on again.

Laravel is a PHP framework that arrives with most of what a business application needs already built: user accounts, permissions, database migrations, background jobs, scheduled tasks, email, and payment handling. PHP itself runs a large share of the web, and Laravel is what turned it into a structured modern framework rather than a pile of loose scripts.

For a business, that means paying for less of the work every application needs and more of the work that makes yours different. It also keeps costs predictable. Hosting is inexpensive and available everywhere, and the developer pool is deep enough that your project never depends on one specialist staying interested in it.

Less To Build From Scratch

The features every application needs come with the framework, so your budget goes toward what your competitors do not already have.

Wide Developer Pool

Easy To Staff Long Term

Laravel developers are plentiful and the conventions are standard, so bringing someone new onto your project is a normal hire, not a search.

Runs Almost Anywhere

Hosting Without Surprises

PHP is supported by practically every host at low cost, which keeps infrastructure predictable as your traffic and team grow.

SaaS And Subscription Apps

Multi-tenant products with plans, trials, and recurring billing, where subscription handling is part of the framework already.

Booking And Marketplace Sites

Platforms connecting two sides of a transaction, with listings, availability, messaging, and payouts, where the hard part is the rules rather than the interface on top.

Headless CMS Backends

Laravel serving content and data through an API to a separate front end, so editors get a proper admin and users get a fast site.

Plenty of businesses run on PHP written years ago, sometimes in an old framework and sometimes in none at all. It usually keeps working right up until nobody wants to touch it, the hosting stops supporting the PHP version it needs, or a security patch turns out to be impossible to apply without breaking something else.

A full rebuild is rarely the right answer. More often we move the application into Laravel in pieces, putting new features in the new codebase while the old one keeps serving what it already handles well. That costs less than starting over, spreads the spend across quarters instead of one quote, and does not ask you to freeze development while it happens.

We build on current Laravel and PHP 8, using Eloquent for data and Horizon with Redis for queued work. Front ends run on Livewire when the interface is straightforward, or Inertia with Vue or React when it is not. Databases are MySQL or PostgreSQL, testing runs in Pest, and deployment goes through Forge or Vapor to AWS, or to infrastructure your team already runs.

Laravel
PHP 8
MySQL
Eloquent
Horizon
Redis
Livewire
Inertia
Vue
React
Pest
AWS

Laravel Conventions Followed

Queues For Slow Work

Upgrades Every Release Cycle

Tests Around Business Rules

We build the way the framework documents, so any Laravel developer you hire later can read the project without a tour.

Email, exports, imports and third-party calls run on queues, so a slow external service never becomes a slow page for your users.

Laravel ships yearly with a documented upgrade path, and we take it each cycle rather than letting the gap grow into a project of its own.

The rules that cost money when they break get test coverage first, which is what makes later changes safe to make quickly.

Laravel Conventions Followed

Queues For Slow Work

Upgrades Every Release Cycle

Tests Around Business Rules

Modern PHP is a different language from its reputation, and Laravel is a genuinely well-designed framework. It powers a large share of commercial web applications. The fair criticism is not the language now, it is the quantity of poorly written PHP still live.

PHP & Laravel
Development Services