What is the Laravel Development Framework?

If you are reading this article, it is probably because you have heard of Laravel development, and you want to find out more about this web development framework before choosing an option for your own customer-facing or internal business technology project.

In this article, we will provide some information on Laravel, its inception and foundation and how it is used.

What is Laravel?

The Laravel development framework uses the PHP general-purpose scripting language as the foundation for its Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. It is available as an open-source product. Its ecosystem includes nearly twenty-five (25) tools and options to simplify coding,  testing, scaffolding, deployment, monitoring, server management, authentication and more. Its Laravel Vapor product is a serverless deployment platform that is powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and its Forge solution provides provision and deployment for PHP applications on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Amazon, Akamai, Hetzner and other platforms. Its Envoyer product is designed to simplify deployment.

TechJury reports that there are nearly 45,000 businesses currently using Laravel for development projects. Laravel is the foundation for nearly 750,000 global websites, and that number is rapidly increasing in the computer, electronics and technology vertical industries, in eCommerce and Digital Marketing, and in the science and education, government and law, and arts, and entertainment industries. Most of its global focus is in the United States,  with the United Kingdom, Russia, India and Brazil following the U.S. in Laravel popularity.

The initial success of Laravel was driven by its PHP-based framework. PHP is a well-known development approach with a twenty-five year reputation and nearly 50% of the global development. The fact that Laravel has chosen PHP as its underpinning, gives it an advantage as it grows its own market and as its popularity grows in the technology sector it has gained recognition among developers.

As Laravel expands its targeted toolkit and features to support simple, rapid development, it gains more popularity among PHP developers and in the market in general,  and today it is used by many world-renowned businesses, including:

Pfizer –Pfizer is a pharmaceutical company with a large research component, an extensive pharmaceutical product line and manufacturing facilities. The Pfizer brand is well-known around the world and, most especially, because of its recent involvement in creating and distributing vaccines to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

BBC – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcasting business established in 1922. It focuses on sports, news, and world coverage via broadcast TV, radio and online media outlets.

Publishers Clearing House – Publishers Clearing House (aka PCH FrontPage) reaches the public via a website and advertising to promote its sweepstakes business. It uses its website to provide news and information about music, movies, television and world news topics including politics, science and technology. Site visitors can earn ‘tokens’ by searching and clicking through videos and articles and apply those tokens to win prizes. The site also allows visitors to register for sweepstakes and lotteries.

Invoice Ninja – Invoice Ninja provides software apps to help businesses invoice clients and track and monitor expenses, tasks and projects.

TourRadar – TourRadar is a travel site that allows site visitors to find and register for tours of sites of interest and destinations around the world.

This article provides the description and uses of the Laravel development environment. If you are interested in finding out how Laravel can help your business, you can get more information here: Find out whether Laravel Application Design and Development and the PHP development approach is the right choice for your team. Hire Laravel Programmers, and Build Your Software Team with dedicated resources. Explore the benefits and components of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach to product design with these complementary articles: ‘What is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)? and Why Should My Business Care?.’ Discover the benefits and components of mobile application development, and the Flutter development environment, with these complementary articles: ‘Mobile App Development is Important to Business, So Are Mobile App Programmers,’ ‘What are the Pros and Cons of Flutter Programming?.’