What API development services do you offer?

We offer REST API development, GraphQL APIs, third-party API integration, Laravel API development, and API security implementation. We also provide DevOps services including AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Where are you based and do you work with clients across the UK?

We're based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, but we work with clients across the entire United Kingdom including London, Manchester, Birmingham, and beyond. We work remotely with businesses throughout Britain.

What technologies do you specialise in?

We specialise in Laravel and PHP for backend development, along with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Node.js, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and CloudFlare. We also work with MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.

Do you provide ongoing support after project completion?

Yes, we offer ongoing support and maintenance packages to ensure your APIs and applications continue running smoothly. This includes monitoring, updates, security patches, and performance optimisation.

Why We're Excited That Craft CMS Is Replacing Yii with Laravel

For years, Craft has been one of our go-to content management systems. It's flexible, developer-friendly, and built for teams who care about doing things properly.

But there's always been one friction point for us - Craft was built on Yii.

Why Yii Has Fallen Behind

Yii is a solid framework, and it served Craft well for a long time. But the reality is that it's fallen behind. Development has slowed considerably, the community has shrunk, and finding developers with Yii experience is getting harder every year. The ecosystem of packages and tooling that modern PHP developers expect just isn't there anymore. When you compare it to what's available in Laravel, the gap is significant - and it's only getting wider. For a CMS that prides itself on being modern and developer-first, the foundation needed to match that ambition.

Every time we dipped into Craft's internals, we were context-switching away from the tools and patterns we use every single day.

Enter Craft CMS 6

That all changes with Craft CMS 6. Pixel & Tonic are replacing Yii with Laravel as the foundational framework, and for a team like ours that builds almost everything on Laravel, this is a massive deal.

One Ecosystem

Our APIs, our backend services, and now our CMS layer will all speak the same language. Less context-switching, faster delivery.

Better Tooling

Eloquent, Artisan, queues, testing - the Laravel ecosystem is enormous and battle-tested. Craft gets to inherit all of that.

Stronger Community

Laravel has one of the largest and most active PHP communities in the world. That means more packages, more support, and more developers who can hit the ground running with Craft.

Long-Term Confidence

Laravel's release cadence and commitment to backward compatibility gives us real confidence in Craft's future. It's a framework that's going nowhere but forward.

What This Means for the Industry

For agencies and developers already working with Laravel, the barrier to adopting Craft just dropped significantly. And for existing Craft users, this means a more modern, more maintainable foundation under the hood.

We can't wait to see what Pixel & Tonic deliver.