Laravel vs Node.js for SaaS Applications

I ship Laravel for domain-heavy SaaS. Node.js shows up for workers and automation — including Anybot — not as a default rewrite.

Laravel is my default for multi-tenant SaaS because tenancy, billing, permissions and queues are product features, not plugins you glue on later. BROC ServiceOS and MatarTaxi are that shape.

Node.js is the right tool for orchestration and browser automation. Anybot is Node and Playwright. Mixing both in one company is normal. Rewriting a working Laravel SaaS into Node because a blog said so is not.

Choose from the domain and the team that will maintain it. From Tangier I keep Laravel as the system of record and Node where the job is workers, not the customer database.