Laravel

What is Laravel?

Laravel is a highly flexible and functional PHP Framework, based on the Open-Source license. Initially developed by Taylor Otwell in 2011, Laravel has steadily grown in popularity due to its ease of deployment and incredibly logical structure. Today Laravel is considered one of the best tools for PHP development based on the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture.

Laravel's Greatest Strengths Are:

Developer-friendly environment

Laravel has gained popularity due to its incredibly logical structure. Without nuisances and complicated structure, development in Laravel, in comparison to other PHP Frameworks, is a breeze. A quick development cycle results in great time savings for the end customer.

Documentation

Unlike certain open-source projects, Laravel has some of the most concise and extensive documentation. Moreover, the documentation is backed by video tutorials, making troubleshooting and development effortless. The less time the developers spend trying to figure out the inner workings, the quicker the project is completed. This significantly cuts down on development time, and hence, overall project cost.

Flexibility

Laravel has a large number of sophisticated solutions which allow developers to create a wide range of functionalities. Thanks to easy and intuitive management, developers working with Laravel have no major problems with creating highly customized solutions and further integrating them with other applications.

Security

What sets Laravel apart from other frameworks, is the fact that Laravel has an incredibly responsive security team, which deals with potential problems in nearly real-time. Every potential security issue is tested and verified, and security patches are released almost immediately. Moreover, it’s important to notice that Laravel security and development teams invest a great amount of time in developing proactive measures to combat XSS (Cross-Site Scripting), SQL injection, CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and numerous other attacks.

Support for MVC

Laravel works well with MVC, which directly translates to a multitude of pre-made functionalities immediately available to developers working on Laravel-based projects. Due to its MVC capabilities, Laravel is a perfect framework for creating unique web applications. MVC support also has great advantages in optimizing apps for performance.

Blade Templating

Blade Templating is an engine which allows web developers to use predefined templates to write specific codes. The light and dynamic templates allow programmers to save time, which affects the final cost of the created solution. Also, Laravel's support for Blade Templating makes the final website or application light and efficient.

Low costs

Due to a high number of pre-made functions already available, developers can focus on completing the project, rather than coding each feature by hand. This saves dozens of work hours per project, which directly translates to savings for the Client.

Simplicity

Laravel’s code is the most transparent among other frameworks. You will look for complexity in vain. Due to Laravel’s clear code, its edition is easy, as well as the detection of potential pitfalls.

We Specialize in Laravel Support and Development

We have more than 5 years of experience in developing custom-made Laravel-based solutions. Our Team consists of qualified full-stack developers, project managers and testers, ready to tackle a project of any size. We strive to provide our Clients with functional, user-friendly and easy-to-use applications.

Why Smartbees?

Agile-based project development cycle
Absolute code transparency since day one
Excellent communication: phone, email, Jira
Dedicated project manager assigned to each project
Proven quality and recommendations from Clients thus far

Laravel - Success With a Limited Budget

Laravel is a great solution for smaller companies or those with a lower project budget. Given the multitude of pre-packed functions and developer-friendly characteristics, Laravel can be used to quickly set up a small project and scale up as needed. The framework is free to use and constantly developed and will allow you to successfully finish a project with a limited budget. However, bear in mind that the final cost depends on the project’s scope. Even relatively inexpensive technology can be an insufficient factor in optimizing costs in the case of complex implementations.

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Our Expertise - What Distinguishes us From the Others?

We use Laravel to build websites, e-commerce sites and web apps of any size. Additionally, we have extensive experience in designing and integrating Laravel modules with external systems.

Laravel-based apps

Laravel is a highly flexible, secure and easy-to-integrate framework, which makes it ideal for creating web apps. At Smartbees, we specialize in creating unique, custom-made apps, backed by extensive documentation.

Laravel support & maintenance

We provide support and maintenance services for all projects based on the Laravel framework. Whether it's maintaining current systems, providing help-desk operations or performing upgrades, we’re ready to take on the task. We guarantee agreement flexibility to meet your business needs.

Laravel modules

We create dedicated and standards-compliant solutions, which can easily be integrated into your current business infrastructure. Our goal is to create software which will be easy to use and manage at the same time.

Laravel migrations

Sometimes a technology reaches its EOL (end of life) cycle. At that moment, many companies are looking towards replacing their current technology with something newer or more scalable. If you noticed Laravel’s advantages in the same way we did, we’re happy to walk you through migrating your project to Laravel and setting it up every step of the way.

E-commerce solutions

We have extensive experience in developing and setting up online stores and e-commerce solutions that scale on demand. When it comes to e-commerce, choosing Laravel has numerous advantages, such as easy scalability, clear code structure and a wide array of optimizations. Given our experience with Magento, Drupal and other technologies, we are happy to leverage our knowledge to integrate Laravel with any technology you choose.

Developer outsourcing

We have an experienced team of Laravel developers ready to support your project based on this framework. Choose from several cooperation models – you can hire one developer or a whole team for a particular amount of hours a month.

Tomasz Zbierski

IT Director / TAI

"Smartbees helped us greatly in modernizing our tender website”
Smartbees showed extensive experience in Drupal and helped us modernize our tender website.

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Mateusz Tomczak

Marketing Specialist / Velo

“The team copes well with a heavy workload”
Smartbees did a great job building and maintaining our Drupal websites, helping us generate sales. The team copes well with a heavy workload, is easy to contact, and pleasant to work with.

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Ernest Rudziński

Head of IT / WSB Merito Universities

“A combination of outstanding competencies in Drupal technology with great communication”
We have been cooperating with Smartbees for several years. The team showed great flexibility during development work while delivering individual parts of the project on time. Communication with Smartbees has always been smooth. The specialists always provided advice, answered our questions, and quickly dispelled doubts.

First contact

Do you want to build a website and think we might partner well? Contact us via email, call us, or fill out a short form on our website.

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Answer

It’s our turn now. We will contact you within one business day to better understand your needs, clarify your inquiry, and determine the further course of the offer process.

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Offer

After the arrangements we go through an individually-made offer process, which results in a personalized estimation of your project.

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Agreement

If you are satisfied with the terms of cooperation and the solutions we propose, we arrange the formalities and sign the contract. We are only one step away from starting work!

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Onboarding

We organize a kick-off meeting and introduce you to the project manager and implementation team. We divide the project into stages, set deadlines, and key principles of everyday cooperation.

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Design & Dev work

Step by step, we carry out the agreed scope of work in accordance with the specifications and schedule. We regularly inform you about our team’s progress in the Jira software and during status meetings with the project manager.

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Testing

Before presenting you with the effects of our work, we thoroughly test our solutions to ensure they fully meet your expectations. This applies to each stage of the project and the whole solution.

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Documentation

We create the project documentation on an ongoing basis, describing how each system’s element works. Doing this will give you full knowledge of the website’s operation, updates, and development possibilities.

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Training

Before implementing the project on a production server, we conduct training on how to use the system so that you get acquainted with it.

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Implementation

We are almost ready! If the website meets your expectations, we install it in a production environment or we assist you in this process.

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Verification

We always ensure all functions work properly in the production environment so that you can use the website without problems.

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Support

If you want us to support and develop your website, check our support offer. We can start work right after implementing the project.

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