Laravel is a prominent member of a new generation of web frameworks. It is a free, open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell back in 2011 and intended for the development of web applications following the MVC model.

Some of the features of Laravel are:

  • modular packaging system with a dedicated dependency manager
  • different ways for accessing relational databases though Routing
  • utilities that aid in application deployment and maintenance
  • orientation toward syntactic sugar
  • easy authentication by providing a simple & easy to use interface and many more.