Aurateria’s take on starting new projects with Laravel 12 and PHP 8.4—performance, type safety, and when to upgrade legacy apps.
Aurateria builds and maintains Laravel applications for startups and enterprises. Here’s how we approach Laravel 12 and PHP 8.4 in 2025.
Why Laravel 12?
Laravel 12 brings better performance, improved testing APIs, and a cleaner default stack. For greenfield projects, we start on Laravel 12 and PHP 8.4 unless client constraints say otherwise.
PHP 8.4 Benefits We Care About
- JIT and engine improvements for CPU-heavy tasks
- Stricter types and attributes for maintainability
- First-class enums and readonly classes for domain logic
When to Upgrade Legacy Apps
We don’t recommend big-bang upgrades. We use a strangler fig approach: run new code paths on the new stack behind feature flags, then migrate traffic gradually.
Need a Laravel upgrade or new build? Aurateria can help—from audit to deployment.
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