Framework upgrades without stopping the product.
An application several major versions behind is rarely one big problem. It is a chain of small breaking changes, each blocked by the one before it.
Nortis maps that chain, then walks the application through it one supported step at a time.
CURRENT
- Angular 14
- Node 18
- Legacy auth SDK
- Outdated dependencies
ANALYZE
- Breaking changes
- API compatibility
- Dependency tree
- Test coverage
MODERNIZE
- Framework upgrade
- Runtime upgrade
- Dependency replacement
- Code migration
VERIFY
- Tests
- Build
- SCA
- SAST
- Integration testing
TARGET
- Supported framework
- Supported runtime
- Updated dependencies
- Security gates
Why upgrades stall.
The longer an upgrade waits, the more it couples to other work.
- The framework can only move one major version at a time
- Libraries pin old peer versions and block the next step
- The runtime needs to move first, or at the same time
- Deprecated APIs are spread across hundreds of files
- Test coverage is too thin to trust the result
How we run an upgrade.
Each step is small enough to review and safe enough to release.
- Map the upgrade path and its blockers before changing code
- Add characterization tests where behavior is undocumented
- Move one major version per step, with the official migrations
- Replace libraries that have no supported version
- Run build, tests, SCA and SAST on every step
- Release behind the existing controls, with rollback ready
Stacks.
We upgrade the stacks we build in.
- Angular
- React
- Node.js
- NestJS
- PHP
- Laravel
Understand the technical and security risk inside your application before planning modernization.
- Can we keep shipping features during the upgrade?
Yes. The upgrade lands in small, releasable steps, so feature work continues on the same branch strategy your team already uses.
- Should we skip straight to the latest version?
Usually not in one jump. Frameworks such as Angular publish migrations per major version, and running them in order is what keeps the change reviewable.
What needs improving?
Whether manual work is slowing operations or aging software is creating risk, start by showing us what you have today.
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No pitch. We start with what you have.