React, Vue, or Svelte SPAs on Laravel, without a separate API.
Inertia.js applications that feel like a SPA to users and ship like a server rendered Laravel app to the engineering team. One codebase, one team, one deployment, full React or Vue interactivity, and zero CORS or token authentication headaches.
- Inertia.js with React, Vue 3, or Svelte (Vue is most common, React for larger teams)
- Vite for fast development and production builds, SSR through Node sidecar where SEO matters
- Full TypeScript support with shared types between Laravel and frontend
- No client side routing, no separate API, no CORS, no token expiry surprises
SPA feel, monolith simplicity.
Inertia.js, in plain terms.
Inertia.js is a library that lets you build single page applications using classic server side routing and controllers, with React, Vue, or Svelte as the frontend layer. Instead of building a separate API consumed by a separate frontend, your Laravel controllers return Inertia responses that hydrate page components on the client. Navigation feels instant because Inertia handles client side transitions, but the architecture stays simple: one codebase, one team, one deployment.
The honest summary: Inertia gives you React or Vue interactivity without the architectural overhead of a separate API and SPA. No client side routing to maintain. No API to design. No CORS configuration. No token authentication headaches. Authentication, validation, and authorisation stay on Laravel where they belong. We have shipped Inertia applications across SaaS dashboards, customer portals, internal tools, and full product applications since Inertia 1.0 in 2020.
Signals your project is a good Inertia candidate.
Inertia is excellent when you want SPA capabilities but have one frontend, one team, and the rich client side interactivity of React or Vue. It is not the right call when you have multiple frontends consuming the same backend or separate frontend and backend teams. If three or more of these apply, Inertia is likely the right choice.
You want React, Vue, or Svelte interactivity on a Laravel application without the cost of a separate API. Your team is strong in JavaScript frameworks and prefers TypeScript over Blade for the frontend. The application needs complex client side state or component composition that Livewire would not handle well. You have one web frontend (no mobile app or third party integrations consuming the same backend). You want page based routing on the Laravel side without maintaining a separate React Router or Vue Router setup. You need rich form interactivity with client side validation but want server side validation as the source of truth.
React, Vue, or Svelte. All three work in Inertia.
Inertia supports React, Vue, and Svelte equally well. The choice comes down to your team's strength, your hiring market, and ecosystem preferences. We build with all three.
React 19 with Inertia
The right pick for larger teams or projects with a long term hiring need. React has the largest talent pool globally and the richest ecosystem of UI component libraries.
Best for
- Larger teams with React skills
- Hiring at scale across regions
- Apps needing complex state machines
- Projects using shadcn/ui, Radix, or similar
- Sharing UI patterns with React Native apps
Vue 3 with Inertia
The most common pick for Laravel teams transitioning from Blade. Vue's templating model feels familiar to Laravel engineers and ships faster than React for typical SaaS work.
Best for
- Laravel teams already strong in Blade
- Smaller teams shipping fast
- Vue 3 Composition API workflows
- Projects using Vuetify, PrimeVue, or Element
- Single page templating familiarity
Svelte 5 with Inertia
The right pick when bundle size and runtime performance matter most. Svelte compiles away the framework, producing smaller JavaScript bundles than React or Vue for the same functionality.
Best for
- Bundle size critical applications
- Performance focused projects
- Smaller teams comfortable with Svelte
- Apps where every kilobyte matters
- Modern reactive primitives valued
How we recommend honestly: for new projects with a Laravel team, Vue 3 is usually the right pick because the learning curve is gentler. For larger teams or projects where hiring at scale matters, React 19 is the safer call. Svelte is excellent for performance focused work but the hiring market is narrower. We will recommend based on your team and roadmap, not on what we prefer building.
Two different mental models. Same Laravel underneath.
Inertia and Livewire are the two leading reactive options for Laravel. Both produce excellent applications. The choice depends on your team's strength and the complexity of client side interactivity you need.
When Inertia is the right call
Your team is strong in JavaScript frameworks, you need rich client side interactivity, and you want React, Vue, or Svelte on the frontend with Laravel handling routing and data on the backend.
Best for
- Teams already shipping React or Vue work
- Complex client side state machines
- Rich component libraries (shadcn/ui, Vuetify)
- Apps with heavy frontend interactivity
- TypeScript codebases with shared types
When Livewire is the right call
Your team is stronger in PHP than JavaScript, the application is form heavy and dashboard style, and you want to stay in one mental model without context switching between PHP and TypeScript.
Best for
- Teams stronger in PHP than JavaScript
- SaaS dashboards, admin panels, customer portals
- CRUD heavy applications
- One mental model preferred across team
- Faster shipping on typical Laravel work
The honest rule: Inertia wins when the frontend complexity justifies a JavaScript framework. Livewire wins when the frontend can be expressed cleanly in PHP and Blade. For most internal SaaS dashboards and admin panels, Livewire ships faster. For complex product applications with rich client interactivity, Inertia is worth the JavaScript investment. Both are excellent.
Everything an Inertia application needs.
Not just pages. The full toolkit that takes an Inertia application from architecture to production with TypeScript, SSR, and proper observability.
Inertia pages & layouts
Page components mapped to Laravel routes, persistent layouts that survive navigation, and shared props for global state like the authenticated user.
TypeScript with shared types
Full TypeScript across the frontend. Shared types between Laravel and the frontend generated through Spatie TypeScript Transformer so response shapes never drift.
Design system with Tailwind
Tailwind CSS based design system with reusable components. shadcn/ui for React, custom design system, or PrimeVue for Vue depending on the project's needs.
Forms with client & server validation
Inertia useForm helper for client side validation and form submission. Laravel form requests handle server side validation. Errors surfaced automatically in the UI.
SSR through Node sidecar
Server side rendering for SEO sensitive public pages. Node.js process runs alongside Laravel through Forge or Vapor, supervised and monitored as part of the deployment.
Vite build & bundle audit
Vite for fast development and optimised production builds. Bundle size audited before launch. Code splitting per page so users only load what they need.
Pest & Vitest test coverage
Pest tests for the Laravel layer covering routes, validation, and controller logic. Vitest plus Testing Library for frontend component tests. CI on every PR.
Monitoring across the stack
Pulse for Laravel performance, Sentry for both frontend and backend errors, structured logging across the SSR Node process, and Core Web Vitals tracked over time.
Named senior engineers on every project.
Our Inertia work is led by team leads who actually ship full stack Laravel and React or Vue work day to day, not generalists treating one half of the stack as a niche.
Mitul Patel
Team Lead, Full Stack Laravel
Six steps from architecture to launch.
Frontend stack chosen in week one. Design system locked before build sprints start. Shared types generated from day one. SSR added only where SEO demands it.
Discovery & Frontend Choice
Map user journeys, page based routing, shared layouts, and pick the right frontend stack (React, Vue, or Svelte) based on team skills. Output is an architecture document and component map signed off before kick off.
Design System & TypeScript
Tailwind CSS design system, TypeScript configuration, shared types between Laravel and frontend through Spatie TypeScript Transformer or similar.
Page & Component Build
Engineers build Inertia pages in two week sprints with Pest tests on the Laravel layer and Vitest tests on the frontend. Larastan plus ESLint plus TypeScript checks on every PR.
Forms & Shared State
Inertia useForm helper for client side validation. Shared props for global state (user, flash messages, feature flags). Laravel form requests handling server side validation.
SSR & Performance Audit
SSR configured through Node.js sidecar where SEO matters. Vite production build optimised. Bundle size audited. Core Web Vitals tracked before launch.
Deploy & Monitor
Deploy through Forge or Vapor with SSR process supervised, Pulse for Laravel performance, Sentry for frontend and backend errors, structured logging across the stack.
The tools we use for production Inertia apps.
Production tested across SaaS dashboards, customer portals, and product applications. Mature, supported, and well documented.
Inertia core
Frontend frameworks
UI & styling
State & forms
Testing & QA
Hosting & monitoring
An Inertia application we shipped.
One detailed snapshot from Inertia work across our 1,300 plus delivered projects. Full case studies sit in our portfolio.
FinTech operations platform migrated from React SPA + Laravel API to Inertia in four months
"We had a Vue 2 SPA plus Laravel API setup that nobody wanted to maintain anymore. Acquaint migrated us to Inertia plus React 19 in four months. Our team cut development time in half because we stopped maintaining two parallel codebases, and the user experience is genuinely better because we never lose form state on navigation."
A FinTech operations platform serving 200 plus internal users had a Vue 2 SPA consuming a Laravel 8 API. The Vue 2 codebase was three years out of date, the Vue 3 migration had been postponed four times, and the team had no Vue specialists left after a hiring round had focused on React. Every feature required changes in two places (Laravel API plus Vue SPA) which doubled the time to ship and created drift between the two layers. Migrating to Vue 3 was rejected. Migrating to a separate React SPA was rejected as more of the same problem. Inertia plus React was chosen as the simpler path.
Four month migration to Laravel 11 with Inertia 2 and React 19. The team mapped Vue 2 components onto React Inertia pages, removed the Vue Router layer entirely, and refactored 60 plus API endpoints back into controller methods returning Inertia responses. TypeScript was added to the frontend with Spatie TypeScript Transformer generating types from PHP DTOs, eliminating an entire class of drift bugs. shadcn/ui replaced a custom component library that had become unmaintained. SSR was added for the public marketing pages only, not for the authenticated operations area. Cutover ran in stages over three weeks, with the Vue SPA retired one week after the final cutover.
Three ways to engage on an Inertia build.
Most clients run Fixed Price for the initial build, then switch to Dedicated Developer for ongoing feature work once the application is in production.
Dedicated Developer
- Full time, exclusive to your product
- 176 hours per month per engineer
- 5 day developer replacement clause
- Direct Slack and email access
Fixed Price Build
- Discovery, design, build, QA, launch
- Project lead, full stack engineers, QA included
- Two week sprint demos throughout
- Post launch handover with docs
Time & Material
- Hourly billing, weekly invoices
- Scale team up or down on demand
- Effective rate from $18 per hour long term
- Full transparency on hours worked
Questions teams ask before starting a web app project.
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What is a Laravel web application?
A Laravel web application is a server rendered or hybrid web app built using the Laravel PHP framework. It can serve interactive dashboards, multi tenant SaaS products, customer portals, internal business systems, marketplace platforms, or anything that needs structured server side logic with a polished user interface. Laravel handles routing, database access, authentication, queues, real time events, and testing out of the box, so engineering teams ship faster than writing raw PHP and end up with code that is much easier to maintain over the years.
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How long does it take to build a web application with Laravel?
A focused MVP usually ships in 6 to 10 weeks with two engineers. A mid sized business application with several modules, third party integrations, and a polished admin lands in 3 to 5 months. Enterprise web platforms with multi tenancy, compliance work, and heavy custom logic typically run 6 to 12 months. The timeline depends on feature scope, decision speed, and how complete the specification is on day one. We share a week by week estimate after the discovery call.
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What types of web apps can be built with Laravel?
Almost any server backed web product. The common types we ship are multi tenant SaaS platforms, internal business systems, customer portals, marketplace and listing platforms, content management systems, fintech and payment backends, learning platforms, healthcare and telehealth tools, real time dashboards, and APIs that power mobile apps. Laravel scales from a single founder MVP all the way to enterprise grade systems running across multiple servers.
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Is Laravel suitable for large web applications?
Yes. Laravel is used in production by FedEx, Disney Hotstar, BBC, Razorpay, and Pfizer, all of which run very large web applications. For scale, we use queue workers with Horizon, Redis caching, read replicas, horizontal scaling on Forge or Vapor, and asynchronous job processing. We have shipped Laravel platforms serving 40,000 plus concurrent users and 80,000 plus loan applications per month on a single architecture.
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Does Laravel work for real time web applications?
Absolutely. Laravel ships with native real time support through Reverb (the official WebSocket server), broadcasting events through Pusher or Ably, and Livewire 3 for reactive UI without a separate SPA. Common real time features we build include live notifications, collaborative dashboards, chat, live order tracking, and presence indicators. For deeper real time work we pair Laravel with Livewire and Alpine.js. More on our Livewire development page.
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How much does Laravel web application development cost?
A focused Laravel web app MVP starts around $12,000 to $20,000. Most mid sized business apps land between $30,000 and $90,000. Enterprise platforms with multi tenancy, compliance, and integrations typically run $80,000 to $250,000. Dedicated Laravel developers at Acquaint Softtech start at $22 per hour or $3,200 per month full time. A full breakdown sits on our Laravel development cost page.
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How do you scale a Laravel web application?
Scaling Laravel is well understood. We profile bottlenecks with Telescope and Pulse, move heavy work to queues processed by Horizon, cache aggressively with Redis, introduce read replicas for the database, and horizontally scale the application layer through Forge or Vapor. For very large workloads we add CDN caching, edge functions, and asynchronous event driven flows. We have taken Laravel applications from a 12 second cold start to sub second response times in three sprints.
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Web application vs website in Laravel, what is the difference?
A website is mostly informational with limited interactivity. A web application has logged in users, data that persists, business logic, and workflows. Both can be built with Laravel, but a web application uses Laravel's full strength (authentication, authorisation, database modelling, queues, events, real time, testing) while a website often runs on a much lighter setup. If you log in, perform actions, and the system remembers state, you are looking at a web application.
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Do you build greenfield web apps or also rebuild existing ones?
Both. Roughly 60 percent of our Laravel work is greenfield, where we take a fresh idea or specification and ship the first production version. The other 40 percent is replatform work, where we modernise legacy PHP or migrate from CodeIgniter, WordPress, or older Laravel versions. For replatform projects we maintain feature parity, run shadow testing, and cut over with zero data loss. More on our migration services page.
What teams usually pair with Filament.
Filament is one part of the Laravel admin ecosystem. Most clients combine the core Filament build with one or more of these.
Livewire Development
Reactive Laravel apps in PHP and Blade for teams stronger in PHP than JavaScript.
Filament Development
Free MIT licensed admin panels on Livewire and Alpine.
Nova Development
Official Laravel admin with Vue.js frontend and per project commercial licence.
SaaS Development
Multi tenant SaaS frontends built on Inertia with Cashier billing and Pennant flags.
API Development
REST and GraphQL APIs when a separate frontend and backend architecture is the right call.
Web App Development
Full stack Laravel web applications including Inertia, Livewire, and Blade choices.
Laravel Development Cost
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