Why Laravel Is the Best PHP Framework

 

What is Laravel?

Laravel is an open source PHP web framework developed and maintained by Taylor Otwell as an attempt to provide a more advanced alternative to the CodeIgniter framework. Its architectural patterns are majorly  based on Symfony.

This framework gained more popularity after the release of version 3, which included features like Command Line Interface called Artisan, Support for the Database system and migrations. It also introduced a packaging system called bundles.

1. MVC Support and Object-Oriented Approach

 The first and best advantage of using the Laravel framework is that it follows - Model, View, and Controller-based architectural pattern and it has an expressive beautiful syntax which makes it object-oriented.

 

 2. Built-In Authentication and Authorization

 Laravel provides an out-of-the-box configuration for the Authentication and Authorization system. That is, in just a few artisan commands your application will be equipped with secure Authentication and Authorization.

 

 3. Packaging System

 A packaging system deals with the multiple support software or libraries that help the web application to automate the process. Laravel uses a composer as a dependency manager, which manages all the information needed to manage packages.

 

 4.Multiple File System

Laravel also has a built-in support for the cloud storage system such as Amazon S3 and Rack space Cloud Storage and of course for local storage. It's amazingly simple to switch between these storage options as the API remains the same for each system.

 

 5. Artisan Console 

Laravel has its own command line interface called as Artisan. Common uses of Artisan include publishing package assets, managing database migrations, seeding and generating boilerplate code for new controllers, models, and migrations.

 

 6. Eloquent ORM

 The Eloquent ORM is Laravel's built-in ORM implementation. Laravel has the best Object-relational Mapper as compared to the other frameworks out there.

 

 7. Templating engine

 Laravel comes with the inbuilt template engine known as Blade Template Engine. Blade templating engine combines one or more templates with a data model to produce resulting views, doing that by transpiring the templates into cached PHP code for improved performance.

 

 8.Task Scheduling

 Scheduler, introduced in Laravel 5.0, is an addition to the Artisan command-line utility that allows programmatic scheduling of periodically executed tasks.

 

 9. Events and Broadcasting

 Laravel has a concept named broadcasting which is useful in the modern web application to implement real-time data, showing live feeds,etc.

 

10. Testing

 When it comes to the testing of the application Laravel by default provides the unit test for the application, which itself contains tests that detect and prevent regressions in the framework.