Laravel Headless & API-Driven Development.
Whatever the reason for your project, our Laravel development team has the experience and expertise to support your headless architecture: built entirely on strong APIs.
What Is Headless Development?
In a “normal” (non-headless) application, the frontend and backend are often tightly-coupled, with a user interface and its business logic locked into place together.
A headless approach breaks these two pieces apart, detaching the frontend “presentation” layer (HTML/CSS/JavaScript, etc.) from the backend where your data lives and most logic happens, allowing the two to interact through APIs.
If you’re exploring options for a Laravel headless CMS – whether you’re after a fully headless Laravel setup or want to combine Laravel with a headless CMS like Prismic or Sanity – there’s plenty of flexibility available.
We work with everything from CMS headless builds to headless Laravel CMS open source solutions, helping clients create fast, scalable systems that work beautifully with frontends like React or Vue.
Laravel Headless Services
We work closely with our clients to plan and design architectures that support both their current goals and future plans. When building a Laravel headless app for your project, our services include:
Custom API-Driven Backends
We design modular, scalable backends that only send data the frontend needs, using APIs that are easy to consume and future-proof.
Frontend Agnostic Development
Our Laravel APIs are designed to integrate smoothly with any frontend technology, whether that’s React, Vue, Flutter, or something else entirely.
Decoupled CMS & eCommerce
If you like the flexibility of a custom frontend but don’t want to reinvent the wheel on backend logic, we build decoupled solutions using Laravel in conjunction with tools like Prismic, Sanity, or BigCommerce.
Ongoing Support & Optimisation
Headless architectures offer tons of flexibility, but that means they can also evolve over time. We provide ongoing support to optimise and tune performance and help you add or adapt features as needed.
Why Laravel for Headless?
Laravel is a framework with a passionate following that’s designed to make creating and maintaining clean, secure, and scalable APIs a lot easier. It offers a host of built-in tools and features that fit nicely with a headless-first approach, including routing and resource controllers, automatic validation, and Laravel Sanctum or Passport for token-based authentication.
A Laravel headless backend can give you:
- * RESTful or GraphQL APIs, ready to go
- * Easy integration with JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, Next.js)
- * Simple scaling and deployment
- * Token-based authentication with sane defaults and optional 2FA
- * Ecosystem and support for customisation and ongoing growth
Frequently Asked Questions About Laravel Headless
Going “headless” just means separating your website or app’s design (frontend) from the behind-the-scenes logic and data (backend). It gives you way more freedom to build fast, modern experiences, like mobile apps or custom web interfaces, without being boxed in by the limitations of traditional platforms.
Laravel is a powerful PHP framework that makes it easier to build clean, secure, and flexible backends. It’s great for APIs, works really well with modern frontends like React and Vue, and has tools built in for things like authentication and validation, so we can get things up and running faster.
Not at all. Laravel works just as well for startups and growing businesses as it does for large-scale sites. One of the biggest benefits is how easy it is to scale: so we can start with what you need now and build on it over time.
yes. Laravel’s API-first approach means it pairs seamlessly with modern JavaScript frameworks like React, Vue, and Next.js. This allows your frontend developers to focus on user experience while Laravel handles the heavy lifting behind the scenes.
We offer ongoing support and performance optimisation to ensure your Laravel backend evolves with your business. Whether you’re adding new features, refining performance, or integrating with new systems, we’ve got you covered.