What is and why Laravel?
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What is Laravel?
Laravel is an open-source web MVC framework for PHP. Laravel is a robust framework that provides easy development of PHP web applications with features like a modular packaging system with a dedicated dependency manager, access to relational databases, and other utilities for application deployment and maintenance.
Laravel was created by Taylor Otwell. Since its initial release in June 2011 (version 1), it has steadily grown more and more popular in the PHP-framework sector of the web development industry. A lot of this popularity can be attributed to the many developer-first-minded features that it comes with stock.
Why Laravel?
Circa 2000, most PHP codes was procedural and could be found in the form of "scripts" that would have a tangled mess of spaghetti code. Even the simplest pages had no separation of concerns, and thus it was fairly easy for an application to quickly grow into a maintenance nightmare. The world needed something better...Enter PHP version 5 and a variety of PHP frameworks attempting to bring some much-needed resolution and better solutions to various web application concerns.Since then we've seen many frameworks released that would pave the way for the popular frameworks existing and being employed today. Today, the top three would (in our opinion) be Zend Framework, Symfony and of course Laravel. Although each of these frameworks was founded on similar principles and are geared toward solving (basically) the same common problems, their key differences lie is their implementations. They each have their own quirks about how to go about solving problems. When you look at the code produced by each of them, you will see that there is a pretty solid line separating them from each other. In our humble opinion, Laravel framework is the best.
