Upgrades one version at a time
Each major step is tested and deployable on its own, so an upgrade never becomes a months-long branch.
Product engineering / Laravel
Old Laravel apps, made current and safe.
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Laravel upgrades & rescue
Version upgrades, takeovers of inherited or abandoned Laravel projects, and the maintenance that keeps them current afterwards.
What we build
Useful from
day one.
LaravelPHPPestForge
Takeovers with a map first
Inherited code is run, mapped and put under tests before anything is refactored.
Maintenance after the rescue
Security releases, dependency updates and server health stay handled once the app is current.
The route to production
Clear steps.
Visible progress.
Discover
We map the real workflow, risks, users, and success measure before choosing an implementation.
Build
Working software lands in visible increments, with the hardest assumptions tested first.
Prove
We validate against production-shaped data, failure paths, performance, and real use.
Ship
Deployment, monitoring, documentation, and a clean handover are part of the build.
Verified client reviews
In their words.
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Before you ask
Questions,
answered.
Can you upgrade an old Laravel app to the current version?
Yes. We move one major version at a time rather than jumping straight to the latest, because each release has its own breaking changes and each step should leave the application deployable. Dependencies, PHP version, deprecated helpers, routing and authentication changes are handled in order, with the test suite (or a set of smoke tests we write first) run at every step.
How do you price an upgrade?
After a short paid audit that reads the codebase, the composer lockfile and the deployment setup. The audit gives a fixed quote per version step, a list of the risky areas, and what we would test. Most of the cost sits in third-party packages that were abandoned or rewritten between versions, and the audit finds those before anyone commits to a number.
We inherited a Laravel project nobody understands. Where do you start?
With getting it running exactly as production does, then mapping it: the domain models, the queues and scheduled jobs, the integrations, and where the business rules actually live. Nothing is refactored until there is a safety net of tests around the behaviour you depend on. You get a written map of the system before we change it.
Do you rewrite from scratch?
Rarely, and never as the first move. A rewrite throws away years of fixed edge cases. We stabilise, upgrade and refactor the existing application in place, and only replace a part when it genuinely cannot be made safe or maintainable.
Can you take over ongoing maintenance afterwards?
Yes, on a monthly plan that covers security releases, dependency updates, queue and server health, backups, and a block of development hours for new work. It is the same care plan agencies use for their clients' sites.
Will our own team be able to continue after you?
That is the intended end state. Upgrades land as reviewed pull requests with notes on what changed and why, and the system map from the audit stays with you.
From the journal
Further reading.
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