Laravel is free, highly used, open-source PHP web framework used for web application development. It follows the MVC architectural pattern. The advantage of using a framework is to replace repetitive coding tasks.
Laravel incorporates common tasks such as authentication, routing, sessions and caching, so it aids rapid development. The major features provided by Laravel include:
- Eloquent ORM – PHP implementation of the Active Record pattern
- RESTful routing – Separated logic in serving HTTP requests such as – GET, POST, DELETE
- Blade templating – Expressive syntax
- Unit testing – Built-in TDD support
- Homestead – Vagrant box for Laravel development
- Composer – PHP package manager for third party tools
It is young and has a modern approach. It is one of the best PHP frameworks available that meets all needs of MVC architecture, event handling and user authentication.
It is the right fit for scalable PHP projects. It is a battery included framework which supports:
- Migrations – Version control for DB changes
- Expressive syntax – Code highlights the intention
- Artisan – CLI used for generating boilerplate code
- Tinker – Powerful REPL based on PsySH package
- Huge list of helper methods
- Authentication – Built-in authentication mechanism, Socialite gem for OAuth
- Queuing – UX bottleneck tasks can be easily pushed and completed via Queue
- Javascript framework – Easy integration of Vue JS
