Updated October 2026 · Written and maintained by the Progression Agency strategy team
Laravel app development services cover the design, build, testing, hosting and upkeep of custom software written with Laravel, the open-source PHP framework for web applications, APIs and the backends behind mobile apps. Progression is a Laravel development company for startups, SaaS founders, operations teams replacing spreadsheets and businesses that inherited a Laravel codebase: we deliver working software, a test suite and a repository you own. Progression Agency is based in New York City and works with clients across the United States and worldwide.
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- What is Laravel used for?
- Our Laravel development services
- Why Laravel? Why is Laravel so popular?
- Laravel vs Django, Rails, NestJS and Symfony
- Is Laravel good for large applications?
- The Laravel ecosystem we build with
- Architecture choices we settle in discovery
- Laravel API development services and mobile app backends
- Laravel SaaS development and MVPs
- Laravel CRM, portal and internal tool development
- Laravel upgrades, migrations and maintenance
- How do you test and deploy a Laravel application?
- Hosting a Laravel application: Laravel Cloud, Forge and your own cloud
- Security in a Laravel application
- Hire Laravel developers as an agency project team
- Laravel development cost
- A Laravel development company in the USA
- How to choose the best Laravel development company
- What you own when the project ends
- AI answers: how buyers ask assistants for a Laravel agency
- How a Laravel project runs with Progression
- Related development services
The short answerWe provide Laravel application development services as a project or retainer team: discovery and architecture, custom Laravel development with tests, API and admin work, upgrades and maintenance. Typical first releases take two to six months depending on scope, and published US price bands for comparable web applications run from $25,000 for a focused tool to $150,000 or more for a portal or platform. Progress is measured in shipped, tested features and a production app that stays inside the framework’s support window. You own the code, the cloud accounts and the documentation from day one.
Laravel, PHP, Composer and OWASP details are as published in their documentation in October 2026 and change with each release. Cost figures are published US price bands (market figures, not a Progression rate card) except the brochure site price, which is Progression’s own; every quote follows a written scope.
What is Laravel used for?
Laravel is used to build database-driven web applications: customer portals, SaaS products, internal tools, APIs, marketplaces and admin panels. It handles routing, validation, authentication, queues, caching, file storage and email so teams spend their time on the product rather than the plumbing.
Is Laravel frontend or backend?
Laravel is a backend framework. Its frontend documentation describes it as a backend framework that provides features such as routing, validation, caching, queues and file storage, and then offers two ways to build the interface: PHP with Blade and Livewire, or React, Svelte or Vue connected through Inertia. That flexibility is one reason it suits full-stack products.
What are Laravel applications, in plain terms?
A Laravel application is a PHP codebase organized by the framework’s conventions: routes that map URLs to controllers, Eloquent models that map database tables to classes, jobs that run in the background and tests that prove each feature works. Laravel web applications run on standard Linux servers or managed platforms.
Who uses Laravel?
Product companies building SaaS, agencies delivering client platforms, ecommerce and marketplace operators, schools, healthcare and financial services teams building portals, and in-house IT teams replacing legacy PHP. It is common wherever a small team has to ship a large, data-heavy application.
Choosing between frameworks in general is covered on our web development frameworks guide; this page is about building with Laravel.
Our Laravel development services
Our Laravel development services run from a first discovery workshop to years of maintenance. Most clients start with one of the six kinds of product below and extend it later.
| Service | What you get | Typical first release |
|---|---|---|
| Custom Laravel development | A new application built to your workflows, with tests and documentation | 2 to 6 months |
| Laravel SaaS development | Multi-tenant product with plans, teams, billing and an admin panel | 3 to 6 months |
| Laravel API development | REST or GraphQL API with token auth, versioning and docs | 1 to 4 months |
| Portals and internal tools | Role-based portal or CRM replacing email and spreadsheets | 2 to 4 months |
| Upgrades and migrations | An older Laravel or legacy PHP app moved onto a supported release | 2 weeks to 3 months |
| Maintenance and support | Security updates, dependency upkeep, monitoring and a monthly backlog | Ongoing |
Laravel web application development, end to end
Our Laravel web application development services cover product discovery, interface design, database design, backend and frontend code, tests, deployment and the runbook your team needs afterward. Design work is done with our UI and UX design team so the application is usable, not just functional.
Laravel web development services for an existing product
Not every engagement is a new build. We add features to live applications, untangle slow pages and queries, add test coverage where there is none and take over support from a previous Laravel agency or departing developer.
A Laravel web development company for agencies
Design and marketing agencies bring us in as their Laravel development agency, the build partner for client platforms. We work under your project management, or white-label, and hand over code, credentials and documentation in the client’s name.
Why Laravel? Why is Laravel so popular?
Laravel is popular because it gives a small team a large, well-documented set of tools that fit together, so common features take days rather than weeks. Its conventions also make an unfamiliar codebase easier for the next developer to read.
First-party packages for the hard parts
Authentication, subscription billing, search, queues, WebSockets and feature flags all have official packages maintained alongside the framework. Using them instead of homemade code means fewer security bugs and easier upgrades.
Predictable releases
Laravel’s release notes say major framework releases come every year, around the first quarter, while minor and patch releases can arrive weekly and should never contain breaking changes. That rhythm lets owners budget upgrades in advance.
Testing is part of the framework
The testing documentation says support for testing with Pest and PHPUnit is included out of the box and a phpunit.xml file is already set up. A Laravel agency that skips tests is choosing to.
Where Laravel is weaker
It is a PHP framework, so it does not share code with a Python data team or a JavaScript-only stack, and long-running real-time workloads need extra components such as Octane or Reverb. We say so in discovery when another stack fits better.
Laravel vs Django, Rails, NestJS and Symfony
Pick the framework your team can staff and maintain for years. Laravel, Django and Rails are all mature, batteries-included frameworks; the deciding factors are usually language, existing code and the shape of the product.
| Framework | Language | Strongest when | Consider Laravel instead when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laravel | PHP | Full-stack products with accounts, billing, admin and queues | |
| Django | Python | Teams already writing Python, data-heavy products, built-in admin | Your developers and hosting are PHP |
| Ruby on Rails | Ruby | Convention-driven products with an existing Ruby team | Ruby hiring is a constraint for you |
| NestJS | TypeScript (Node.js) | A JavaScript team sharing types between frontend and backend | You want more built in on day one |
| Symfony | PHP | Large PHP systems that want component-level control | You value speed of delivery over configuration |
Laravel vs Django in one paragraph
Both are excellent. Django suits teams already working in Python, especially where the product sits next to analytics or machine learning code; Laravel suits teams in PHP and products that lean on queues, billing and a rich first-party ecosystem. Python builds are covered on our Python development company page.
When we would not recommend Laravel
A content-only marketing site, a product whose core is a Python data pipeline, or a team that writes only TypeScript and wants one language end to end. Our Next.js development and web development pages cover those cases.
Is Laravel good for large applications?
Yes, when the application is designed for it. Large Laravel applications stay healthy through clear module boundaries, background queues, caching, careful database work and horizontal scaling, not through the framework alone.
Start with a modular monolith
One deployable application, organized into modules with clear boundaries, is faster to build and easier to change than microservices for most products. Modules can be split out later if one part genuinely needs to scale on its own.
Move slow work to queues
Laravel’s queue documentation describes a unified queueing API across backends such as Amazon SQS, Redis or a relational database. Reports, imports, emails and calls to other systems run in the background so pages respond quickly, and Horizon adds a dashboard for Redis queues covering job throughput, runtime and failures.
Octane when request speed matters
Laravel Octane serves the application through application servers such as FrankenPHP, Open Swoole, Swoole and RoadRunner, booting it once and keeping it in memory between requests. We use it after profiling shows the boot cost matters, because code must then be written to avoid memory leaks.
Database work decides most performance
Indexes, eager loading to avoid repeated queries, read replicas and caching of expensive results matter more than any framework setting. Scaling projects of this kind are described on our backend and full-stack development page.
The Laravel ecosystem we build with
We use first-party packages wherever they fit, add well-maintained community packages where they save real time, and write custom code only for what makes your product different.
| Package | What it does | When we reach for it |
|---|---|---|
| Eloquent ORM | Maps each database table to a model class | Every project |
| Queues and Horizon | Background jobs, with a dashboard for Redis queues | Imports, emails, reports, integrations |
| Livewire | Dynamic interfaces written mostly in PHP | Admin-heavy products and internal tools |
| Inertia with React, Svelte or Vue | A JavaScript frontend using Laravel routes and controllers | Consumer-facing products with rich interfaces |
| Sanctum | Lightweight auth for SPAs, mobile apps and token APIs | Most APIs and first-party apps |
| Passport | A full OAuth2 server | Third parties need delegated access |
| Cashier | Subscription billing on Stripe or Paddle | SaaS plans, trials, coupons and seats |
| Scout | Driver-based full-text search for models | Search across products, documents or records |
| Reverb | WebSocket server for real-time features | Live dashboards, chat, notifications |
| Pennant | Feature flags | Gradual rollouts and A/B tests |
| Filament | Community admin panel builder for Laravel | Back-office screens built quickly |
Laravel Livewire development
Livewire lets developers build dynamic screens as PHP components, which keeps a small team in one language. It is our default for admin panels and internal tools, often alongside Filament, an open-source builder for Laravel apps and admin panels.
Laravel Inertia development
Inertia connects Laravel routes and controllers to a React, Svelte or Vue frontend without a separate API, which suits products that need a rich interface. Laravel’s starter kits ship in React, Svelte, Vue and Livewire versions. Our React development team works on the same projects.
Authentication and billing without reinventing them
Sanctum provides authentication for single page apps, mobile apps and simple token APIs; Passport provides a full OAuth2 server; Cashier wraps Stripe subscription billing, including coupons, plan swaps, quantities and cancellation grace periods. We customize them rather than replace them.
AI features inside Laravel applications
The Laravel AI SDK provides one API for AI providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini, and Laravel MCP lets AI clients interact with an application through the Model Context Protocol. We use them to add assistants, summaries and search to products; deeper work is on our AI integration services page.
A product idea and a deadline, but no Laravel team yet?Send the outline, the users and the date that matters. You get a free proposal with a written scope, a first-release plan and the team we would assign.
Architecture choices we settle in discovery
The expensive mistakes in a Laravel project are made in the first weeks: tenancy, data model, authorization and where heavy work runs. We decide them in writing before feature work starts.
| Approach | How it works | Good for | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shared database, tenant column | Every table carries a tenant ID, enforced by global scopes | Most SaaS products | A missed scope can leak data, so tests cover it |
| Schema per tenant | One database, a separate schema for each customer | Mid-sized customers wanting separation | Migrations run once per schema |
| Database per tenant | Each customer gets its own database | Enterprise or regulated customers | More infrastructure and slower rollouts |
Events and jobs instead of tangled controllers
When an order is placed, an event fires and separate listeners send email, update stock and notify the warehouse. Each piece is small, tested and easy to change without touching the others.
Caching with a plan for invalidation
We cache expensive queries and rendered fragments with clear keys and expiry rules, and write down what clears each cache, so users never see stale prices or permissions.
Laravel API development services and mobile app backends
Laravel is a strong choice for the API behind a mobile app or a JavaScript frontend. We design the endpoints, authentication, versioning, rate limits and documentation together, so the apps that depend on the API can rely on it.
| Need | Sanctum | Passport |
|---|---|---|
| Your own SPA or mobile app signs users in | Yes, the usual choice | Possible, more than you need |
| Users create personal API tokens with scopes | Yes | Yes |
| Third-party apps request access on a user’s behalf | No | Yes, full OAuth2 server |
| Setup and maintenance effort | Light | Heavier |
Laravel mobile app backend development
Mobile apps need stable, versioned endpoints, token authentication, push notification jobs, file uploads and background processing. We publish an API contract early so iOS and Android work can proceed in parallel; our app development team builds the apps themselves.
Webhooks and integrations
Payment providers, CRMs, accounting tools and shipping services talk to the application through webhooks and scheduled syncs. We queue every incoming webhook, make handlers safe to run twice and log each call. Standalone API products are covered on our API development page.
Laravel SaaS development and MVPs
Laravel shortens the path to a paid SaaS product because accounts, teams, billing, email and an admin panel are largely solved problems in its ecosystem. The MVP budget goes to the features customers pay for.
Laravel MVP development that survives success
A minimum viable product still needs tests, migrations and a deployment pipeline, because the first paying customers arrive before any rewrite would. We cut scope, not foundations. See our MVP development page for the wider process.
Billing, trials and plans
Cashier handles subscriptions, trials, coupons, seat counts and failed payments on Stripe or Paddle; we add the plan rules, usage limits and dunning emails specific to your product. SaaS beyond the code, from pricing to hosting, is on our SaaS product development page.
Laravel CRM, portal and internal tool development
Many of the most valuable Laravel projects never face the public: a CRM shaped around how your team sells, a portal where customers download documents and pay invoices, or an operations tool that replaces a fragile spreadsheet.
Laravel CRM development
A custom CRM earns its cost when an off-the-shelf one forces your process into the wrong shape. We build the pipeline stages, permissions, integrations and reports you need; when extending an existing CRM is cheaper, our CRM development team says so.
Laravel portal development
Portals need careful authorization so each customer, partner or employee sees only their records. Laravel’s authorization features provide gates and policies for exactly that; portals at scale are covered on our web portal development page.
Internal tools and dashboards
Approval workflows, inventory screens, scheduling and reporting dashboards are quick to build with Livewire and an admin panel builder, and they remove hours of copy and paste each week. Reporting-heavy tools draw on our dashboard development work.
Laravel upgrades, migrations and maintenance
An application that falls behind the framework’s support window stops receiving security fixes. Laravel maintenance services keep it current; a Laravel upgrade service brings an older one back inside the window.
The support windows to plan around
Laravel’s support policy gives every major release 18 months of bug fixes and 2 years of security fixes. PHP’s own supported versions page says each PHP branch is fully supported for two years from release and then receives critical security fixes for two more years. An upgrade plan has to respect both clocks.
How a Laravel upgrade service works
We audit the application and its dependencies, add tests around the riskiest paths, then move one major version at a time using the official upgrade guide, which rates each breaking change by its likelihood of impact. Each step is deployed and verified before the next.
Laravel migration services for legacy PHP
Older PHP applications, whether framework-free or built on frameworks such as CodeIgniter, can move to Laravel without a risky big-bang rewrite. We route traffic through the new application and move one area at a time, with tests proving each area behaves as before.
What a Laravel maintenance retainer includes
Framework and dependency updates, security patches, uptime and error monitoring, backups checked by restore, small fixes and a monthly backlog of improvements, with a written report. Maintenance for marketing sites is on our website maintenance page.
Laravel consulting and code audits
Laravel consulting suits teams that want a second opinion: a code and security review, an architecture plan, a performance investigation or an upgrade estimate. You get a ranked list of findings and the effort each fix takes. Broader advice is on our software consulting page.
How do you test and deploy a Laravel application?
Every change runs through automated checks, a staging environment and a reviewed merge before a zero-downtime release. The pipeline is set up in week one so it protects every feature that follows.
Tests that prove features, not just lines
Feature tests exercise real routes, database writes, emails and queued jobs; unit tests cover pricing rules and other logic. We write tests for permissions explicitly, because authorization bugs are the ones that leak data.
Environments and releases
Local, staging and production environments use the same configuration with different secrets. Releases cache configuration and routes, run migrations safely and restart queue workers. Pipeline and infrastructure work is described on our DevOps services page.
Hosting a Laravel application: Laravel Cloud, Forge and your own cloud
Choose hosting by who will operate it. A managed platform removes server work; a provisioning tool gives you servers you control; a custom cloud setup suits strict compliance or unusual scale.
| Option | What it is | Fits | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laravel Cloud | Laravel’s managed platform that provisions, builds, deploys and patches | Teams that want no server work | Less low-level control |
| Laravel Forge | Server provisioning and deployment on servers you control | Teams comfortable owning servers | You own patching and scaling choices |
| Laravel Vapor | Serverless deployment on AWS; closed to new signups | Existing Vapor applications | Not an option for new projects |
| AWS, Google Cloud or Azure directly | Containers or virtual machines you configure | Compliance needs or existing cloud contracts | More DevOps effort |
| Managed PHP hosting | A hosting company runs the servers | Small applications | Queues and workers may be limited |
Is Laravel serverless?
Laravel itself is a framework, not a hosting model. Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform on AWS, but its site says it is no longer accepting new signups. Laravel Cloud offers compute that can scale to zero, preview environments for each pull request and regions across the US, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific.
When Forge or your own servers make sense
Forge advertises one-click provisioning, zero-downtime deployments and automated SSL on servers you control. Hosting providers and platform costs are compared on our PHP hosting and backend hosting options guides.
Security in a Laravel application
Laravel ships with protections against the most common web attacks, but they only work when the code uses them correctly. We review every build against the OWASP Top 10 and check the Laravel-specific mistakes that tools miss.
| Risk | Laravel’s protection | What we add |
|---|---|---|
| Mass assignment | Eloquent models are protected by default and need fillable or guarded fields | Reviews of every fillable list |
| Broken access control | Gates and policies for authorization | A test for each role and record type |
| Cross-site request forgery | A CSRF token generated for each active user session | Checks on every state-changing route |
| Vulnerable dependencies | Composer’s audit command checks packages against advisories | The audit runs in every build |
| Leaked secrets | Environment files kept out of the repository | Secrets in a managed vault, rotated on staff changes |
| Unlogged admin actions | Events on model changes | An audit log for sensitive records |
The OWASP Top 10 as a baseline
The OWASP Top 10 is the standard awareness document for the most critical web application security risks. We use its current edition as the checklist for code review, and our website security team handles hardening and monitoring after launch.
Mass assignment and authorization, specifically
Laravel’s Eloquent documentation explains that models are protected against mass assignment by default, the attack in which an unexpected request field, such as an admin flag, changes a database column. Its CSRF protection generates a token for each active user session. We test both rather than assume them.
Dependency hygiene
Composer’s audit command lists security advisories for installed packages and flags abandoned ones. We run it on every build and keep the package list short.
Inherited a Laravel app nobody wants to touch?Give us read access to the repository. A free proposal follows with an audit plan, the upgrade path and the risks we would fix first.
Hire Laravel developers as an agency project team
When you hire Laravel developers from Progression, you hire a managed team that owns delivery: a lead developer, developers, testing and project management working to a written scope. We are not a staffing agency and we do not place individual contractors on day rates.
| Model | How it works | Fits | You get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed-scope project | An agreed scope, price and milestones | New builds and upgrades with a clear end | A delivered release and handover |
| Monthly retainer | A set number of team hours each month on a prioritized backlog | Live products with steady change | Releases, maintenance and reports |
| Dedicated project team | The same Laravel developers on your roadmap full time, managed by us | Products with a long roadmap | A stable team, our process and cover for absences |
How to hire PHP Laravel developers without a technical background
Ask to see tests running on a recent project, ask how they would upgrade an application that is two major versions behind, and ask who owns the repository during the project. A strong answer to all three matters more than a list of packages.
Hire dedicated Laravel developer time, or a dedicated team?
If you want to hire a dedicated Laravel developer, consider what happens during holidays, illness or a resignation. Our dedicated project team keeps the same people on your product, with a lead who reviews their code and a replacement plan built in.
Laravel developer for hire, or a contractor?
If you need one Laravel developer for hire embedded in your own engineering team on a day rate, a contractor or a staffing firm is the right supplier, and our hire PHP developers guide explains how to screen one. If you need software delivered and maintained, hire a Laravel development team.
Hire remote Laravel developers who work your hours
Our team is based in New York and works with clients remotely across US time zones, with overlap for clients in Europe. When you hire a Laravel developer through us, they join your standups, chat and tickets while we manage delivery.
Hire expert Laravel developers for the hard parts
Some clients have capable in-house developers and want to hire Laravel programmers with deep experience for one hard problem: a multi-tenancy redesign, a major upgrade, a performance crisis or a security review. We take those on as short fixed-scope projects. Wider outsourcing models are compared on our software development outsourcing page.
Laravel development cost
Most Laravel projects fall inside the published US price bands below (market figures, not a Progression rate card). Your price follows a written scope, and the biggest drivers are integrations, user roles, data migration and compliance.
| Build | Published US price band | Typical timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Integration or automation | $15,000 to $50,000 | 4 to 10 weeks |
| Focused web app or internal tool | $25,000 to $75,000 | 2 to 4 months |
| Mobile app backend | $30,000 to $100,000 | 2 to 4 months |
| Client portal | $60,000 to $150,000 | 3 to 6 months |
| SaaS MVP | $60,000 to $150,000 | 3 to 6 months |
| SaaS backend | $60,000 to $200,000 | 3 to 6 months |
| Performance or scaling project | $15,000 to $60,000 | 2 to 8 weeks |
| Marketplace or complex platform | $150,000 and up | 6 to 9 months or more |
| Maintenance retainer | Quoted monthly after an audit | Ongoing |
Cost to hire Laravel developers by the hour
Published US price bands for app development put freelance developers at $60 to $150 an hour and agency teams at $100 to $250 an hour or a fixed first-release price (market figures, not a Progression rate card). An agency rate includes project management, testing and cover for absences that a freelance rate does not.
Laravel website development cost
If you need a marketing website rather than an application, Laravel is usually the wrong tool and a CMS is cheaper. Progression’s own fixed-scope list on website design and development starts a brochure site of five to eight pages from $9,500.
What pushes a Laravel quote up or down
Up: many user roles, third-party integrations, data migration from a legacy system, multi-tenancy, audit and compliance requirements. Down: an admin panel builder instead of custom screens, a phased first release and clear decisions from one product owner. More examples sit on our web app development page.
A Laravel development company in the USA
Progression is a Laravel development company in New York City that delivers for clients in all 50 states and abroad. Contracts, invoicing and intellectual property assignment follow US terms, and working hours overlap with every US time zone.
Laravel development company in New York, working nationally
Clients in New York can meet us in person; clients in Florida, Texas, California and elsewhere work with us through video calls, shared boards and a weekly demo. The process is the same either way.
Laravel outsourcing without the usual gaps
Teams that outsource Laravel development usually worry about time zones, code quality and ownership. We answer all three in the contract: overlapping hours, a test suite and review on every change, and repositories in your name from the first commit.
How to choose the best Laravel development company
The best Laravel development company for you can show tests, staging and ownership terms on a real project, explain its upgrade plan and give you a written scope with milestones. A portfolio alone proves design, not engineering.
| Requirement | How to check it |
|---|---|
| Automated tests on every change | Ask to watch the test suite run on a recent project |
| A staging environment | Ask how changes are reviewed before production |
| Upgrade discipline | Ask how they keep applications inside the framework’s support window |
| Security review | Ask how they check mass assignment, authorization and dependencies |
| Client ownership | Confirm the repository, cloud accounts and domains are in your name |
| A named team | Ask who leads development and who reviews their code |
| Written scope and milestones | Ask for a sample statement of work |
| Documentation at handover | Ask for a sample runbook and architecture note |
Questions to ask a Laravel agency before signing
What would you build first and what would you cut? Which first-party packages would you use? How do you handle a production incident at night? What happens to the code if we part ways?
Red flags that cost money later
No tests, no staging, code that lives only on the agency’s account, custom authentication, version numbers nobody can explain and a quote with no assumptions written down.
What you own when the project ends
Everything. The repository, cloud and platform accounts, domains, third-party service accounts, documentation and runbooks are in your name throughout, and we transfer any admin access on request.
- Source code in your repository, with full history
- Hosting, database and storage accounts registered to your company
- Domains, DNS and email sending accounts in your name
- Payment, search and email service accounts owned by you
- An architecture note, a deployment runbook and an incident checklist
- A test suite that runs in your pipeline without us
- A list of every package used, with its license and support status
- Recorded walkthroughs of the admin panel and the release process
AI answers: how buyers ask assistants for a Laravel agency
Founders and CTOs now ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Overviews for a shortlist before they ask anyone else. Those answers are built from pages the assistants can read and cross-check.
The prompts buyers type
Typical prompts are “best Laravel agency for a SaaS MVP”, “Laravel development company in the USA”, “how much does a Laravel portal cost”, “Laravel vs Django for a marketplace” and “who can upgrade an old Laravel app”. Each mixes a technology, a product type and often a location.
What assistants tend to cite
Official documentation for technical questions, agency service pages with plain answers and price bands, review directories, comparison articles and public code or package pages. A page that states scope, process, cost and ownership in plain sentences is easier to quote than one built around slogans.
What a software company should publish to be named
A service page per framework or product type with direct answers, a cost table, a process, ownership terms and real FAQs, plus consistent company facts everywhere it is listed. Our answer engine optimization team does this work for software firms.
How a Laravel project runs with Progression
Discovery, architecture, build in two-week cycles, launch and support. You see working software every cycle and approve scope changes in writing.
- Discovery: users, workflows, integrations, data and success measures, written into a scope
- Architecture: data model, tenancy, authorization, hosting and the delivery pipeline
- Design: key screens and flows prototyped and approved before build
- Build: two-week cycles with a demo, tests and a staging release each cycle
- Launch: data migration, load and security checks, monitoring and a release plan
- Support: a maintenance retainer or a handover with documentation and training
What we need from you
One product owner who can make decisions, access to existing systems and data, and an hour each cycle for the demo.
Where an engagement can start
With a paid discovery, a code audit of an existing application, a fixed-scope first release or a retainer. Each one starts with a free proposal and a written scope.
Related development services
Laravel projects usually touch design, infrastructure, APIs and data. These pages cover each in depth.
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Frequently asked questions
What is included in Laravel app development services from Progression?
What work does a Laravel app development company take on for a client?
What is Laravel used for?
Why do companies choose Laravel?
Who uses Laravel?
Is Laravel frontend or backend?
Is Laravel good for large applications?
Laravel vs Django: which should we choose?
How much does a custom Laravel application cost to build?
What is the hourly cost to hire Laravel developers in the US?
Do you place Laravel developers on our team, or build the project for us?
Can you take over and upgrade an existing Laravel application?
Which Laravel version should a new project start on?
What does your Laravel testing and deployment pipeline look like?
Can Laravel power a mobile app backend or a public API?
Is Laravel serverless?
Where should we host a Laravel application?
What does a Laravel maintenance retainer include?
Who owns the code, repository and cloud accounts when the project ends?
Can you move a legacy PHP or CodeIgniter application to Laravel?
Which security checks do you run on a Laravel codebase?
Which questions reveal whether a Laravel agency is any good?
Can a Laravel application use AI features?
Can a New York Laravel team build for a company in another state or country?
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