Laravel Development Perth

Nano Solutions has built Laravel applications in Perth since 2013 — starting on Laravel 4 and shipping continuously through every major version to today's Laravel 12. Custom web platforms, APIs, Filament admin panels, and legacy modernisation for clients including Surf Life Saving Australia, City of Fremantle, and Procom. WA Government CUAICTS2021 panel supplier (Contractor #225). The website you are reading now runs on Laravel.

Laravel is the framework we reach for first whenever a project is dominated by business logic — multi-role permissions, dashboards, document workflows, customer portals, internal tools, or SaaS products. It is mature, well-documented, and has the deepest local talent pool of any modern web framework in Australia. That matters: you should never be locked into a single agency to keep your software running, and Laravel makes onboarding any competent PHP team trivial. For an honest read on when Laravel is the right choice — and when Node, Python, or .NET fits better — see Laravel for Australian business.

We are also active participants in the Australian Laravel community — regular attendees at Laracon Australia in Brisbane, where the core Laravel team and the most active community contributors share what's coming next. Showing up matters: it is how we have stayed current with framework direction, ecosystem packages, and the engineers who maintain them since the very early days of Laravel 4 in 2013.

On this page: what we build with Laravel, the modern Laravel ecosystem we use day to day (Filament, Livewire, Inertia, Pest, Forge, Vapor, Horizon), named Perth projects we have shipped, an honest read on when Laravel is the right choice and when it is not, our modernisation work for legacy Laravel codebases, transparent pricing, and a long FAQ.

What We Build With Laravel

Laravel suits a wider range of software than people often assume. Most of the Laravel work we deliver in Perth falls into one of these categories:

• Custom web applications and SaaS platforms. Multi-role business software with dashboards, complex permissions, scheduled jobs, reporting, and third-party integrations. The bulk of our Laravel work.
• API backends. RESTful APIs (Laravel API Resources) and GraphQL (Lighthouse) with token authentication via Sanctum or Passport, rate limiting, versioning, and OpenAPI documentation. Often paired with a separate Vue or Quasar + Capacitor front end.
• Admin panels and internal tools. Filament is our default — production-ready CRUD, RBAC, audit logging, and form builders in days instead of weeks. Laravel Nova where a licence is already in place.
• Customer portals. Client-facing self-service portals for invoicing, document access, support tickets, project status, and account management. Single sign-on integration with Microsoft Entra, Okta, or Auth0 where required.
• Real-time platforms. WebSockets via Laravel Reverb or Pusher for live dashboards, chat, notifications, and collaborative editing.
• E-commerce and multi-tenant systems. Laravel-backed storefronts (custom or built on Bagisto), B2B ordering platforms, and multi-tenant SaaS using Tenancy for Laravel.
• Internal automation and ETL pipelines. Background job processing with Horizon, scheduled imports/exports, data normalisation, and integration with accounting systems (Xero, MYOB), CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot), and ERPs (NetSuite, SAP).

Our Laravel Stack and Ecosystem

Laravel is more than just the core framework — the ecosystem around it has matured significantly in the last few years, and most agency competitors stop at "we use Laravel" without telling you what they actually build with. Here is what is in our standard toolbox:

• Framework. Laravel 11 and Laravel 12 for new builds, with awareness of LTS upgrade pathways. We track the official Laravel release cycle and recommend version policies that match your maintenance budget.
• Front-end integration. Livewire 3 for server-rendered reactive UIs without a separate SPA build. Inertia.js paired with Vue 3 or React when an SPA experience is the right call. Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS sit underneath both options for lightweight interactivity and styling.
• Admin and internal tooling. Filament is our default for admin panels, internal CRUD tools, and back-office dashboards — open source, no licence cost, dramatically faster to build than custom Blade. Laravel Nova remains available where a client prefers a paid first-party option.
• Testing. Pest for new projects (cleaner syntax, faster to write), PHPUnit for legacy codebases. Laravel Dusk for end-to-end browser tests of critical user journeys. CI runs the full suite on every push.
• Deployment and infrastructure. Laravel Forge on DigitalOcean, AWS, or Vultr for most standard builds. Laravel Vapor for serverless workloads at scale. Direct AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud for enterprise builds with VPC, IAM, and compliance requirements. Infrastructure-as-Code via Terraform or Ansible so the environment is reproducible from day one.
• Queues and background jobs. Redis with Laravel Horizon for monitoring, retries, and rate-limited dispatch. Scheduled tasks via the Laravel scheduler. SQS, RabbitMQ, or Beanstalkd where the project demands it.
• Search and caching. Laravel Scout backed by Meilisearch for most projects, Elasticsearch for complex relevance tuning, Redis for application-level caching, Cloudflare for edge caching and DDoS protection.
• Databases. PostgreSQL is our default, MySQL where a hosting environment requires it, SQLite for embedded or single-tenant deployments.

Laravel Work We Have Shipped in Perth

Specifics matter more than generic claims. A representative subset of the Laravel work running in production today:

Surf Life Saving Australia. We build and operate mission-critical Laravel platforms for Australia's national volunteer beach-safety organisation, including BeachSafe (consumed by millions of beach-goers each summer), the Operations App used by 1,000+ weekly patrols, and the Results platform that records carnival outcomes nationally. The platforms run on a Laravel monorepo, deployed via CI/CD, with queued background processing, real-time data sync, and integration with state-branch databases. They have been in continuous service for over a decade.

City of Fremantle. Laravel-based internal tooling delivered under the WA Government CUAICTS2021 panel arrangement. The engagement covered both new build and modernisation of inherited systems, with audit logging, accessibility, and records-management retention designed to align with the State Records Act 2000 (WA).

Procom. A Laravel platform that streamlines the production of Operations and Maintenance (O&M) manuals for construction and resources projects — replacing manual document chasing with structured workflows, status tracking, push notifications, and digital/printable export. The platform integrates with the head contractor's existing systems and is now the source of truth for project documentation.

Trojan Recruitment Group. A private Laravel portal for managing employee data, client communications, timesheets, invoicing, and compliance tracking — replacing a tangle of paper timesheets and spreadsheet workflows. The platform handles upload, approval, and archival of timesheet data, with role-based access for employees, managers, and finance staff.

This website (nanosolutions.io). Worth mentioning because no other Perth Laravel agency can credibly point at their own website as a Laravel reference: nanosolutions.io is a Laravel application with markdown-driven content, Tailwind v4, Alpine.js for interactivity, and a self-hosted font stack. If you want to see what production Laravel looks like, you are looking at it.

When Laravel Is the Right Choice (And When It Is Not)

Honest framing first: Laravel is the right answer for a lot of business software, but it is not the right answer for everything. We will tell you when it is not.

Good fit for Laravel:

• Software with complex business logic — multi-role permissions, approval workflows, document handling, reporting.
• Customer portals, B2B applications, internal tooling, and SaaS products with a server-rendered or hybrid architecture.
• Projects that will live for years and need a framework with active maintenance, security patching, and a large hiring pool.
• Teams that want to inherit and continue the project themselves — Laravel has the deepest PHP developer pool in Perth and Australia.
• API backends paired with a separate front end (mobile, SPA, kiosk, partner integrations).

Poor fit for Laravel — we will recommend something else:

• Static marketing sites with no application logic. Use a CMS (WordPress, Statamic, Sanity) or a static site generator.
• Real-time games, low-latency trading platforms, or sub-millisecond compute workloads. Use Go, Rust, or Node.js.
• Native iOS or Android-first mobile apps where the mobile experience is the product. We would recommend cross-platform app development with Vue + Quasar + Capacitor, with Laravel as the API backend.
• Pure data-engineering and machine-learning workloads. Use Python, dbt, or a dedicated data platform.

The point is that we have no commercial interest in pushing Laravel where it does not fit. Picking the wrong technology now is the most expensive decision a software project can make.

Laravel Modernisation and Version Upgrades

About a third of our Laravel work begins as a takeover from another agency or an inherited internal project. The pattern is usually the same: the codebase is a few major versions behind, dependencies are out of date, security patches have not been applied, the original developers are unreachable, and the previous team did not write tests. Sound familiar?

Our Laravel modernisation engagement starts with a paid one-week code review. We deliver a written report covering: current Laravel version vs. the supported version target; a dependency audit with known CVE flagging; a security scan covering authentication, authorisation, input handling, and session management; a test-coverage assessment; an estimate of technical debt scored against the cost of remediation; and a recommended remediation roadmap with effort estimates. You can engage us to deliver the roadmap, take the report to another agency, or use it to negotiate with the original developers. We have no problem with any of those outcomes.

The upgrade path itself follows the official Laravel upgrade guides between versions, with deprecation handling, package replacement (e.g. dropping abandoned packages for actively maintained alternatives), database migration auditing, and a test suite added or expanded before the upgrade. We do not believe in big-bang rewrites: most legacy Laravel projects are stabilisable inside the existing codebase. For more, see our Software Modernisation page.

Why Choose Nano Solutions for Laravel

• Established 2013, shipping on Laravel since version 4. Over a decade of delivering Laravel software in Perth, with 50+ projects shipped. We started on Laravel 4 in May 2013 and have shipped continuously through every major version since.
• Active in the Australian Laravel community. Regular attendees at Laracon Australia in Brisbane — where the Laravel core team, framework contributors, and the people behind Filament, Livewire, and Pest present what is coming next. We are not just users of the ecosystem; we are part of the conversation that shapes it.
• WA Government CUAICTS2021 panel supplier (Contractor #225). The only Perth Laravel agency on the panel — direct engagement without a full open tender for state agencies and local councils.
• Named clients with logos. Surf Life Saving Australia, City of Fremantle, Procom, Trojan Recruitment. Not anonymous testimonial quotes.
• This website runs on Laravel. Live proof. Every other Perth Laravel agency runs their marketing site on WordPress.
• Full source-code ownership. The Git repository is yours from day one. You can take it to any other team at any time. No vendor lock-in.
• Fremantle-based, no offshore subcontracting. Same timezone, face-to-face meetings, code stays under Australian privacy law.
• Senior engineers, not graduates billed at senior rates. The developer who proposes the architecture is the developer who builds it.

Specialised Software Development Services

Laravel development is one specialisation within our broader software practice. Related capability pages:

• Software Development Perth — the hub page for all our software work, covering process, technology selection, and industries served.
• Web Application Development Perth WA — interactive browser-based platforms, customer portals, and SaaS products.
• Software Modernisation — migration of legacy ASP, VB.NET, and on-prem systems to maintainable cloud-native architectures.
• Government Software Development Perth WA — direct engagement under the WA Government CUAICTS2021 panel arrangement.
• App Development — when the mobile experience is the product. Laravel typically powers the API backend.

Book a free 30-minute discovery call to scope your Laravel project. We will walk you through the relevant trade-offs and provide a written proposal with a fixed price for well-defined scopes.