Laravel 13 and Livewire 4 Application Engineering
Server-state-first web apps on Laravel 13 and Livewire 4 — internal portals, B2B MVPs, and content systems shipped with production defaults and tests.
I build full-stack web applications on Laravel 13 with Livewire 4, a server-driven UI stack that removes the separate JavaScript framework from the staffing plan. The result is a smaller blast radius, faster delivery, and an application your team can inherit without a frontend specialist on the bench.
Most engagements start the same way: a spreadsheet, an aging Access database, or a SaaS subscription that no longer fits. I scope a 30 to 90 day build, ship a working portal behind real authentication, and hand back a codebase that follows Laravel conventions, runs a Pest test suite, and passes Pint on every commit.
What I ship
- Greenfield Laravel 13 applications. Domain modeling, Eloquent relationships, policies, queued jobs, and overlap-safe scheduling configured from day one.
- Livewire 4 components. Server-state-first interactions, lazy loading,
wire:model.livewhere it earns its keep, and Alpine only when the DOM genuinely demands it. - API surfaces. Eloquent API Resources, Sanctum tokens, versioned routes, and Form Requests with explicit validation rules.
- Background processing. Queued jobs with retries, Horizon-style monitoring, scheduled commands wrapped in
withoutOverlapping(), and failure alerting that actually pages a human. - CI-grade testing. Pest 4 feature and browser tests, Pint-enforced style, and a CI pipeline that blocks merges on red.
Where it fits
Internal operations portals
Retire three spreadsheets in 30 days. Replace the shared inbox, the second shared inbox, and the form that emails the first shared inbox. Authentication, role-based authorization, audit trails, and a UI that survives a non-technical operations lead doing data entry on a Tuesday morning.
B2B SaaS MVPs
Auth, billing, multi-tenancy, an admin surface, and the first three customer-facing flows in weeks rather than quarters. Fortify and Sanctum handle the account perimeter; Flux UI provides the component vocabulary; queues handle anything that takes longer than a request cycle.
Marketing and content systems
Editorial workflows, structured data, sitemap automation, and a publishing pipeline that survives an SEO team without a developer in the loop. Schedulers run daily; sitemaps regenerate on publish; canonical URLs and metadata are first-class fields, not afterthoughts. The patterns behind these systems are written up in the research notes.
Why this stack, for these jobs
Laravel 13 and Livewire 4 collapse the front and back ends into one mental model. A single engineer can ship a feature end to end without context-switching between a Vue or React tree and a separate API. The maintenance cost drops accordingly: fewer build pipelines, fewer dependency upgrade trains, fewer places for state to disagree with itself.
The ecosystem ships production defaults. Fortify handles authentication, Sanctum handles tokens, Pest handles the test runner, Pint handles style, and Flux UI handles the component layer. I do not assemble these from scratch on every project; I configure, harden, and document them so the next engineer to open the repository finds an application that looks like the documentation it came from.
How I work
I am the principal and the engineer. There is no offshore team behind the page. Engagements are fixed-scope sprints with weekly demos and a Git history you can read. I do not subcontract authentication, payments, or anything else that decides whether your business is on fire on a Saturday.
Code reviews happen against a written plan. Tests are written alongside features, not bolted on at the end. Migrations are reversible. Seeders exist. Deployment is documented in the README, not in my head.
Engagement model
Most builds start with a one to two week discovery: domain interviews, schema sketch, route map, and a written plan with milestones. From there, two-week build cycles with a working demo at the end of each. Final handover includes the running application, the test suite, the deployment runbook, and a 30-day support window for the inevitable questions that surface after launch. To scope a build, get in touch.
Engineering is the secondary practice on this site. The primary work is AI consulting; Laravel and Livewire are the toolchain I reach for when the advice needs to ship as a running system. If your engagement is half strategy and half build, both halves are the same person.