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Building and Deploying a Laravel App With Claude Code on Zerops

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Shipping a Laravel app is never just the app. InvoiceHub needs Postgres, a queue worker, S3-compatible storage for generated PDFs, and somewhere for outgoing email to land. Normally that's an afternoon of dashboards and env vars before you touch any business logic.

In this video, I build the entire thing without installing a single dev tool on my laptop.

The setup is two MCPs working together: Laravel Boost knows Laravel, and ZCP (the Zerops Control Plane) knows infrastructure. I write a spec in architecture.md, hand Claude Code one prompt, and watch it provision Postgres, Valkey, Mailpit, and object storage, then scaffold Laravel 13 with Filament v5 across separate web and worker services.

The second prompt builds the invoice pipeline. Click "issue" on a draft invoice and a queued job renders the PDF, stores it, and emails the client. The agent verifies its own work: the file is in the bucket, the email is sitting in Mailpit with the PDF attached, and 33 test assertions pass. Two prompts got a working feature, end to end.

Then the part worth watching twice. A third prompt asks for full-text search, and the agent browses the live Zerops service catalog, picks Meilisearch, provisions it, wires it into Laravel Scout, and redeploys both services. I never open a dashboard.

I also walk through what this actually costs. You pay for the hardware you use, billed by the minute. No plans, no seat fees. The whole dev stack starts around $21/month and drops as it scales down.

The repo includes a one-click import file, so you can deploy the exact same stack into your own Zerops account: https://github.com/harris21/invoicehub

👉 Zerops: https://zerops.io

Watch the full video on the Laravel News channel: https://youtu.be/o3NuCL__JSA

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Senior Software Engineer • Staff & Educator @ Laravel News • Co-organizer @ Laravel Greece Meetup

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