Laravel
PHP development made productive. Eloquent ORM, Blade templating, Horizon queue management, and Sanctum for API authentication cover the full lifecycle.
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Rapid development without compromise
Laravel is the framework that organises PHP product work. Routing, authentication, an Active Record ORM, queues, events and scheduling are first-party and designed together, so the early months of a build go into the product itself instead of infrastructure decisions.
The front-end question has two first-party answers. Livewire renders interactive components from the server in PHP, while Inertia.js pairs the framework with a React or Vue front end, and either keeps the product one codebase with one deployment. Hosting runs from a single server to fully serverless on AWS through Vapor.
Laravel suits web products built by PHP or full-stack teams: SaaS platforms, customer portals, commerce, the workloads its conventions were shaped by. It is the wrong frame for a team already working in TypeScript end to end, or for a product that is chiefly a rich client application; Next.js on Node.js fits that shape more directly.
8.9% of respondents to the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey reported working with Laravel in the past year.
Laravel publishes one major release each year, with bug fixes for eighteen months and security fixes for two years from each release.
- SaaS Products
- Web Applications
- REST APIs
- E-Commerce
Our Laravel capabilities
Eloquent ORM & database layer
Eloquent models define relationships, query scopes and eager loading against a schema carried entirely by version-controlled migrations. Active Record makes an N+1 query easy to write and easy to miss, so query behaviour is reviewed alongside the code that produces it.
- Eloquent
- Migrations
- Query scopes
Livewire & Inertia full-stack
Livewire keeps interactive components in PHP, rendering on the server and updating over the wire, with Alpine.js covering small client-side behaviours. Inertia.js instead gives the front end to React or Vue with no separate API layer to maintain. We choose between them per product, by team shape and by how demanding the interface is.
- Livewire 3
- Inertia.js
- Alpine.js
Queues, events & scheduling
Background work runs on Redis or SQS queues with retries, backoff and rate limits configured per job, and Horizon showing throughput and failures as they happen. Scheduled tasks live in code, versioned and reviewed with the application, in place of crontab entries.
- Horizon
- Redis
- SQS
Why Adaca for Laravel?
SaaS product development
Multi-tenant platforms with Cashier for subscriptions and payments, Sanctum for API tokens, and tenant isolation.
Livewire & Inertia expertise
Full-stack Laravel with Livewire 3 or Inertia.js, choosing the right approach per use case.
Queue & background processing
Horizon with Redis for monitoring, failed job handling, and throughput metrics.
Testing with Pest & PHPUnit
Feature tests for endpoints, unit tests for logic, and database assertions with RefreshDatabase.
Laravel Vapor deployment
Serverless on AWS Lambda via Vapor with SQS, RDS Proxy, and CloudFront.
Legacy Laravel upgrades
Upgrades from v5/6/7 to v11 using Laravel Shift and manual review of custom providers.
How We Staff It
Laravel staffing depends on where the product is. An established application usually calls for one engineer who reads the existing conventions and extends them; a new build starts with a lead who sets the architecture, adding engineers as the roadmap widens. Both draw on the bench behind our wider PHP and Symfony work.
Common Questions
Should we build on Laravel or Symfony?
Laravel for a product, Symfony for a platform, is the short answer. Laravel's conventions cover the common shape of a web product immediately: authentication, billing, queues, notifications. Symfony's components are less opinionated and more configurable, suited to systems whose architecture will not follow a framework's defaults.
The gap is smaller than the comparison implies, because Laravel is built on Symfony components and engineers move between the two. For most product builds the speed of Laravel's conventions wins; we recommend Symfony where the domain demands an architecture of its own.
Will Laravel scale if the product succeeds?
The framework is rarely the ceiling. Requests share nothing, so a standard deployment scales horizontally behind a load balancer; Octane holds the application in memory when raw request throughput matters; queues move slow work off the request path.
The ceiling that does arrive is the database, as it does on any stack. Eager loading discipline, read replicas and caching decide how far a Laravel application goes, and that is engineering work inside the stack, never a reason to leave it.
Is Laravel a good stack for AI-assisted delivery?
Laravel's conventions are a real advantage for coding agents: routes, controllers, models, migrations and jobs sit in the same places in every application, so tooling orients quickly, and the framework's documentation corpus is dense. The counterweight is the magic: facades and container bindings resolve at runtime, so a static read of the code understates what it does.
Larastan closes much of that gap by teaching PHPStan the framework's behaviour, and feature tests that exercise the real container give an agent a fast, trustworthy check. The measured results of our AI-augmented delivery flow are on the Technology page.
What does a Laravel team from Adaca look like?
Small. The framework covers the stack from data to interface, so one engineer carries a feature end to end and engagements often start with exactly one. A front-end engineer joins where Inertia and React are in play, and a second back-end engineer when the roadmap needs parallel streams.