From Legacy to Maintainable: How We Tamed a 15-Year-Old PHP Codebase with Targeted Refactors
We modernized a 15-year-old PHP app not with a rewrite, but with surgical refactors that improved queries, UX, and team onboarding.
We modernized a 15-year-old PHP app not with a rewrite, but with surgical refactors that improved queries, UX, and team onboarding.
How we added real-time SMS check-ins to a 15-year-old PHP app using Twilio—without breaking a sweat (or the auth system).
We automated image sitemaps and SEO page generation in our Laravel 12 app to scale search visibility ahead of peak season.
Fixed Laravel Livewire's dreaded 'Page Expired' error by auto-refreshing sessions instead of breaking the UX.
Syncing lead status between a 15-year-old PHP app and a new Next.js frontend taught us hard lessons in event-driven design and data consistency.
We built a hybrid static sitemap generator using Laravel Artisan to serve Next.js content, improving crawl efficiency and reducing server load.
Laravel's PDO SQLite layer was silently breaking our geospatial queries—here's how inline parameter binding saved venue search in AustinsElite.
How we automated legacy event-to-venue matching in Next.js using Laravel-powered console commands and robust service layers.
We broke a bloated VenueMetadata model into focused services using domain-driven design—here’s how we did it without breaking production.
We cut 1,000+ lines of unused Tailwind preflight CSS from a legacy PHP app and replaced it with lean, scoped styles—here’s how.
How we built a future-proof responsive data table in a 15-year-old PHP app using Blade, Tailwind, and mobile-first design—without rewriting everything.
How I modernized a legacy Laravel/PHP app’s frontend with TailwindCSS and component-driven Blade for true mobile-first responsiveness.