Hey Martin. I replied to a post of you on X, as I cant DM you anywhere. I appriciate your advice, and coupled with the other advices on reddit, that's what I'll do: backup test upgrade upgrade upgrade laravel :)

and for sure would appriciate if i could get you mail, can you DM me on one of the platforms so i can reply there?

lol. FOR SURE! that deserved font size 50, at least :P

Hey guys. I work at a small company and act as this guy "that's good with technology". i.e, anything related to backend, frontend and god forbid, even devops is being dumped at me. Our software was built 20 years ago by an external company that doesnt exist anymore.

I was asked to upgrade our legacy php 5.4 to recent version and i figured it would also be a great opportunity to shift to using Laravel.

I am already equipped with a docker env for php 5.6 (the earliest i could find that worked well), and the usual PHPStan, PHP_CodeSniffer and Rector.

Obviously, claude code will come to the rescue here. Since this is honestly not my strong skillset (I'm really not a backend guy) - I would love it if someone here could make themselves available to me for questions i might have along the way. I am going to write a complete test suite (again, with claude code) on top of what we currently have (not much).

Also, If there is a relativley cheap service that does such things, and you can reccomand first hand, I might just propose to my boss to outsource it completley - as i might not be the right guy for the job (I dont have seniors with me to guide me through. its basically "you know how to code - do it!"