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Laravel PHP Framework

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What is Laravel PHP Framework?

Laravel is a free, open source web application PHP framework.

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Developers and engineers have utilized Laravel for the creation of websites and web applications, leveraging its support and structure for common tasks in web development. Reviewers have praised Laravel for its ability to quickly build services that can be easily integrated or expanded upon later. The Laravel framework has gained popularity due to its extensive library offerings and large developer community, reducing the need for writing unrelated code. Laravel is commonly chosen as a backend logic framework because of its compatibility with PHP and other front-end technologies. Customers have found Laravel beneficial in building optimized websites, enabling teams to deliver improved services to clients. Users have reported that Laravel is easy to work with, particularly for those familiar with Laravel and other PHP frameworks. Additionally, Laravel has been used for developing internal web applications, showcasing its versatility and active development. It has been employed in various use cases such as REST API development, web development, containerized web apps, and network programming/socket programming. Developers around the world prefer Laravel for its intuitive nature, simplicity, extensibility, and strong community support. The blade templating engine in Laravel is a valuable tool for front-end developers in building things quickly and effectively. Moreover, Laravel is utilized for managing product catalogs, simplifying the process of adding, updating, and deleting products as well as publishing to e-commerce platforms like Shopify. With its stability, ease of learning, and support for REST API development, Laravel is suitable for various projects. CMS platforms also choose Laravel due to its user-friendly interface, quick setup process, and automated scaffolding capabilities provided by the Artisan console.

Users have made several recommendations for Laravel, a web development framework. The most common recommendations include:

  1. Learning PHP before using Laravel is advised to gain a good understanding of the language and make the learning process smoother.

  2. Users recommend utilizing the extensive documentation and online resources provided by Laravel, such as Laracasts tutorials, to grasp the basics and explore advanced concepts.

  3. It is recommended to start with smaller projects when learning Laravel, as this allows developers to become familiar with the framework's features without feeling overwhelmed. This approach promotes gradual growth and improvement.

These recommendations emphasize the importance of acquiring basic knowledge, leveraging available resources, and adopting a gradual approach when diving into Laravel development.

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Fahad Shaikh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Marinating Migrations
  • Generating boilerplate files through Artisan command
  • Handling database queries
  • Integration of Blade templating engine
  • Laravel PHP Framework should be more flexible with modern days frontend frameworks like ReactJs and NextJs
  • Laravel PHP Framework can be more efficient in terms of performance
  • Timestamp should be inserted automatically with "insert" command
Lankit Patel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Authentication scaffolding baked-in to get quickly started
  • Command Line Interface to interact with system
  • Migration & Eloquent To communicate with database
  • Package management & Autoloading of classes
  • REST API Development
  • Built-in Development Server
  • Template Engine( blade )
  • Boostrap UI should be put more emphasised
  • New starter kits are powerful but makes development confusing
  • Steep learning curve, everything has a best practice in Laravel PHP Framework but it takes a little bit of time to get there
HASAN SARFRAZ | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It has a very secure built in access control system.
  • It provides a robust mechanism for handling exceptions and bugs.
  • Laravel facilitates you to store passwords in database in encrypted form rather than text.
  • It allows you to test individual units rather than the whole product.
  • Data migration is simple and easy with Laravel.
  • Support is not readily available.
  • Updates are frequent, which is great but previous products developed with old version gets buggy.
  • Sometimes face difficulties with updates.
  • Although it is easy to learn but it is quite difficult to master it.
Sean Patterson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Front end templating through Blade.
  • Leveraging Artisan/Eloquent for database migrations/ORM needs.
  • Keeping up to date with PHP framework changes.
  • Documentation/how to videos.
  • Performance issues are sometimes difficult to track down.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • First thing I like about it is MVC patter which is easy to learn if and only if you know about MVC, otherwise it is very difficult to learn.
  • Quick development so it saves our time as well as our clients time.
  • Although its documentation is quite good like CakePHP (which is called CakePHP cookbook), it is difficult to learn unlike CakePHP and CodeIgniter.
  • Even I have started developing applications with CodeIgniter and Yii.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Laravel utilizes the best possible PHP standards and coding practices.
  • Laravel uses many widely-accepted community libraries and builds upon them, rather than re-inventing everything.
  • Laravel has many components available from the community and is extremely easy to build custom components for, either with custom code or by integrating existing third-party PHP libraries.
  • Laravel is flexible enough to power pretty much any kind of application I can imagine.
  • Laravel is not the easiest framework to grasp for new developers (even though it probably IS the best framework for a new developer to learn because it will teach many good, modern development practices).
  • Laravel requires more configuration and glue code than some other frameworks I've used, such as CakePHP. CakePHP relies on convention over configuration, whereas Laravel is more explicit. I think Laravel's way is ultimately more flexible and scalable, even though it's less terse. Perhaps there is room for somewhat of a middle ground.
  • Laravel's community doesn't have the level of contribution of some more widespread PHP frameworks or CMSs, though it has the benefit of being built on Composer and being able to utilize any existing PHP library, so it's not much of an issue.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Well documented, easy to understand even for beginners. They can understand it easily in 3-4 days. Because of its simplicity and speed it is used more than any other framework.
  • Supports unit testing for product testing.
  • Since Laravel PHP was developed after other frameworks, the developer of Laravel already knew the problems faced using other frameworks so it was developed taking into consideration those problems.
  • Because it upgrades frequently, older products used with it get buggy.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Can be used for any type of project no matter what size.
  • Lightweight.
  • Has multiple features which helps in developing, testing and releasing the product.
  • Interaction to command line using Artisan is also a plus point.
  • Using of libraries is I think the worst part. Sometimes developers purchase libraries which can be built.
  • Problematic upgrade of version also caused bugs on projects.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The framework takes care of so much of the legwork of accomplishing arbitrary things you might want to do in your web-app. This is because it plays well with NPM + Composer - which is perfect for building websites quickly, securely & beautifully.
  • Using its built in capabilities like Eloquent, the Schema Builder, and Blade templates make mundane tasks quick and easy. Laravel has an amazing data model and is expandable to suit your needs, whether it be a small business or a corporate enterprise at scale.
  • Laravel has an amazing community @ Laracasts which can help identify and find solutions to almost any problem out there.
  • There isn't a whole lot to dislike about the framework, honestly. If I am forced to say something is that sometimes the authors change the directory layout and it's not always easy to deal with. That being said, I've never not been able to upgrade within a few hours.
  • Sometimes using the artisan CLI - it requires additional tweaking to get it running on non-standard application rollouts.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Effective folder structure helps to optimise code.
  • Easy integration with third-party tools.
  • Quick support of questions and get answers correctly, as the community is very large.
  • Backward-incompatible.
  • You have to understand the basics of OOPS before you can start using Laravel PHP Framework
Tarun Mangukiya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Excellent Documentation
  • Community Support on Slack & Stack Overflow
  • Composer Supported
  • Excellent Blade Engine for views
  • Highly scalable routing that support domains & subdomains both.
  • Thousands of different libraries/packages available in the GitHub according to our requirements
  • Support for Database Migrations, Tests, Workers and Schedulers
  • Regular Updates
  • Well suited with front-end frameworks like VueJS, React and more.
  • Default Docker Support
Jim Rubenstein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Many libraries available which simplify integration of SaaS APIs within your application (eg, MailChimp, Mandrill, Stripe, Authorize.net)
  • Pre-packaged tools to facilitate common tasks when building applications (eg, User Authentication and Authorization, Background Jobs, Queues, etc)
  • Support for a broad set of technologies out of the box (eg, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MemcacheD, BeanstalkD, Redis, etc)
  • Laravel is updated regularly, which is great. However, in order to get the latest features, use the newest 3rd party libraries, have the most current security updates, and ensure that the newest features of PHP are usable, you have to continuously upgrade your Laravel application. This costs time and money, obviously, and if you don't stay on top of the updates you will quickly fall behind. This is the case with any open source software, but it needs to be considered for any team considering using Laravel or any other software.
  • Because of the size of the Laravel community, there are a LOT of 3rd party libraries. Some of these are great, some are less than great. Sometimes it's difficult to evaluate the quality of a library, making it difficult to trust many libraries. Developers need to be cautious and thoughtful when considering using new software.
  • Because of the rapid development of the Laravel framework, the size of the community, and the simplicity of being able to publish content online - it is very easy to find documentation, tutorials, or other "advice" that is not up to date, or that has outdated information.
December 12, 2017

Laravel makes PHP happy

Rahul Chaudhary | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Beautiful and intuitive code. They are not kidding when they say Laravel makes your code look beautiful, it really does.
  • Excellent community support. You really wouldn't believe how fast Laravel is growing. New tools are launched almost monthly!
  • A wide selection of tools to use in your project.
  • End to End Development support. Need to write database queries, routes, cron jobs, Laravel has it all. And all of it is part of your code. How often do you see CRON jobs being part of your code!
  • All major editors support this, so code completion is no issue.
  • Who knew one day PHP will have dependency injection!!
  • Has inbuilt code to send emails, social login, etc.
  • Significant learning curve. You cannot be an expert in a week. It takes many experimentations to properly understand the underlying concept. We ourselves learned it by using it on the job.
  • Too much to soak in. Laravel is in everything. Any part of backend development you wish to do, Laravel has a way to do that. It is great, but also overwhelming at the same time.
  • Vendor lock in. Once you are in Laravel, it would not be easy to switch to something else.
  • Laracasts (their online video tutorials) are paid :( I understand the logic behind it, but I secretly wish it would be free.
  • The eloquent ORM is not my recommendation. Let's say you want to write a join, and based on the result you wish to create two objects. If you use Laravel to do automatic joins for you, Laravel internally actually makes two calls to database and creates your two object rather than making one join call and figuring out the results. This makes your queries slow. For this reason, I use everything except eloquent from Laravel. I rather write my own native queries and control the creation of objects then rely on Laravel to do it. But I am sure with time Laravel will make fewer calls to DB.
Jeetendra Pujari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The database migration feature is very useful for versioning the database schema and for keeping the data consistent across environments.
  • The ORM framework is easy to use and enforces DB best practices.
  • The environment detection feature is also pretty cool. This will help load the right configurations to be loaded based on the environment.
  • I think one of the challenges of MVC is where do you put the domain logic or business logic. I think they should create a domain layer to incorporate domain logic so that we don't end with fat controllers of fat models.
  • Add more functionality to artisan, to speed development.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Code scaffolding with Artisan
  • Reduce the development time
  • Create custom web systems
  • PHP 7 support
  • Great ORM support with Eloquent
  • The online documentation can be better. If you don't know on which version you are currently working that can be a headache.
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