Web Applications & APIs with Laravel, Node, React and Vue

Custom web applications beyond WordPress — Laravel and Node back ends, React, Next.js and Vue front ends, MySQL data models and REST APIs, taken from idea to production.

Not every project should be a WordPress site. When a client needs an application — user accounts, business logic, dashboards, integrations, data that does not fit the post-and-page model — I build it properly on an application framework.

The stack I work in

  • Back end: PHP and Laravel, Node.js, MySQL, REST APIs, queued jobs and scheduled tasks.
  • Front end: React, Next.js, Vue.js and modern JavaScript — server-rendered where SEO matters, SPA where it does not.
  • Everything around it: authentication and roles, payments and subscriptions, transactional email, file storage, logging, deployment.

What these projects usually look like

Internal tools and dashboards

The software a business runs on that nobody sells: job tracking, quoting, scheduling, reporting, inventory. Usually replacing a spreadsheet that has outgrown itself, and usually worth far more to the business than its public website.

Client portals

Authenticated areas where customers see their own data — orders, documents, project status, invoices — connected to whatever system is already the source of truth.

SaaS products

Multi-tenant applications with plans, billing, usage limits and self-serve onboarding. I built and run one of my own, Tuli Builder, so I have carried every part of this — including the parts that only hurt after launch.

APIs and integration layers

Services that sit between systems that were never designed to talk: normalising data, handling retries and rate limits, and failing in a way that is debuggable at 2am.

How I approach a build

  1. Model the domain first. Most application pain traces back to a data model decided in week one and never revisited. I would rather spend two extra days here than two months later.
  2. Ship a thin slice end to end. One complete user journey working in production beats six half-finished features in staging.
  3. Keep the boring parts boring. Framework conventions, standard auth, well-trodden libraries. Save the originality for the part of the product that is actually original.
  4. Write it so someone else can take over. Readable code, migrations in version control, environment config documented, a README that assumes no prior context.
Not sure whether you need an app or a site?

Describe the workflow and I will tell you which one it is. Quite often the honest answer is “WordPress plus one custom plugin” — and that answer costs you a great deal less.

Let's talk about your project.

Free 30-minute call and a written quote. I will tell you if I am not the right fit.