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Livesquare

Successfully modernized and ported a 7-year-old YouTube curation web service onto PHP 8.3 and Laravel 10 frameworks, integrating Laravel Nova admin portal and automated CI/CD pipelines.

Livesquare
[Fig 8. Livesquare Revived Platform Original Web Dashboard Screenshot, 2023]
Original stack
PHP 7.1 / Laravel 5.3 / Bootstrap 3
Failure mode
Legacy Laravel version reached end-of-life
Recovery actions
Refactored codebase to modern version and converted Bootstrap to TailwindCSS
Final outcome
Enabled latest Laravel features and migrated to modern admin portal (Nova)

Recovery notes

Orchestrated the architectural migration of a legacy Laravel 5.3 application to the modern Laravel 10 framework, rewriting outdated core service providers and ensuring strict PHP 8.3 compiler compatibility.

Replaced a complex, custom-built CakePHP 2 admin panel with a robust, enterprise-grade Laravel Nova administration portal to simplify curated video and channel management.

Eliminated highly fragile manual FTP deployment setups by implementing a high-reliability automated CI/CD pipeline powered by GitHub Actions, Forge, and Envoyer.

Redesigned the old static Bootstrap 3 frontend using responsive, mobile-optimized Tailwind CSS 3 layouts to match modern visual standards and cross-device display requirements.

Established a clean, transparent software development workflow using GitHub Issues and Pull Requests to maintain complete code traceability and reversible history.