What is Laravel? Why Laravel is Popular?

Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern.

LARAVEL FRAMEWORK IS VERY POPULAR

Laravel is the Most Starred PHP Framework on Github: more than 30 000 developers from all over the world (mostly from the USA) greatly appreciate robust features of this platform.

LARAVEL TRENDS

Based on data of the BuiltWith, Laravel’s popular websites verticals include Business, Entertainment, Media, News, Shopping, Technology, Vehicles.

WHY IS LARAVEL FRAMEWORK SO POPULAR?

  • Tasks that usually take hours and hundreds of lines of code to write, can be done with Laravel framework in a few minutes with pre-built functions. For example, basic authentication (including social login integration), cache (to improve perfomance), form validation (to ensure that user has provided necessary and properly formatted information), and etc. are already implemented in a new installation of Laravel. Development becomes easier, faster, and efficient!
  • Writing unit tests is usually very time-consuming, however, it’s definitely worth the spent time because software testing provides clients with information about the quality of the product or service. Fortunately, Laravel testing is already integrated into the framework!
  • Laravel community is very friendly and helpful, and documentation is detailed: developer doesn’t need to spend much time researching best practices in developing and maintaining web applications, and making decisions on how to implement everything properly. Unlike Symfony or Zend framework, developers can find many code snippets, tutorials, courses about Laravel.
  • With October CMS based on Laravel 5.1 LTS (Long Term Support) PHP Framework the process of building absolutely anything from simple promotional sites to high-powered web applications becomes even more easy. October CMS now is a go-to platform for many developers and clients. It has been installed more than 100 thousand times.

Source: https://belitsoft.com/laravel-development-services/why-laravel-so-popular