What is Laravel

In a very short span of time, Laravel became popular among PHP developers after it was first introduced in 2011 by developer Taylor Otwell. He conceived and created Laravel because he felt there was no PHP framework that exactly matched his needs and requirements. Otwell's goal was to create a web framework that was easy to use and where commonly used functionalities were available.

Today, many programmers use Laravel's web framework. But what is a web framework? To put it in perspective, in the past, developers had to handle all the overhead such as routing, database connections, and connecting to a queueing system themselves. You can imagine that this overhead was extremely time-consuming. Not anymore, because such overhead is already included in Laravel, allowing us to focus on the functionalities of the application.

Open Source

Open source means that anyone can copy and modify Laravel's source code. You don't have to pay or sign up for this. Because everyone can easily copy the code, many developers take advantage of this. When something starts to become popular in the online world, a large community quickly forms. So, there are many Laravel developers who help each other out with problems.

Why Laravel?

Because Laravel is an open source PHP framework with a very active community behind it, it is an ideal solution for building well-functioning web applications. This active community ensures that security stays up-to-date with the latest techniques and that security updates are released regularly. As a customer, you won't notice these updates; our optimized code seamlessly implements the updates.

Here are some advantages at a glance:

• Reliable and secure
• Easy to maintain and expand
• Transferable to other developer(s)
• Open Source
• Laravel applications are light and fast
• Allows for automated testing
• Extensive error handling
• A community of over 50,000 developers adds new components to the framework daily
• Easy to link to other systems