Laravel

What is Laravel?

Laravel is the most popular PHP framework, loved for its elegant syntax and extensive ecosystem. Laravel provides everything you need for modern web applications: routing, ORM, templating, queues, authentication and more. It is used by Disney, BBC, Pfizer and hundreds of thousands of other projects.

Why Laravel is useful

Laravel takes the complexity out of web development:

• Elegant syntax: Expressive, readable code that is a pleasure to work with
• Batteries included: Auth, queues, websockets, caching — everything out of the box
• Eloquent ORM: Intuitive database interaction with an Active Record pattern
• Strong ecosystem: Forge, Vapor, Nova, Livewire, Inertia and more

Time savings with Laravel

Laravel saves weeks of development time with ready-made solutions for authentication, APIs, real-time events and deployment.

Hidden features that often go unused

Laravel offers much more than a simple MVC framework:

• Laravel Vapor: Serverless deployment on AWS Lambda — infinitely scalable.
• Livewire: Build reactive interfaces without JavaScript — full-stack with just PHP.
• Broadcasting: Real-time events via WebSockets with Laravel Echo.
• Telescope: Debug dashboard for requests, queries, jobs and exceptions.
• Sanctum & Passport: API authentication with tokens or OAuth2.
• Pennant: Feature flags for gradual feature rollout and A/B testing.

Integrations with other tools

Laravel integrates with many other tools and services:

• MySQL & PostgreSQL: Native database support with Eloquent ORM.
• Redis: Caching, queues and session storage with Redis.
• Digital Ocean & AWS: Deployment via Laravel Forge or Vapor.