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• Laravel Development, New Technology, PHP, Website Development

Why Laravel PHP Frameworks is the First Choice of all Developers

What are the general criteria for a development team to choose the framework?

Certainly, third-party integrations, deployment, testing and many more that need deliberate consideration.

More than 80% of all the websites including the big fish like Pinterest.com, WordPress.com, Wikipedia.org, and Facebook.com are built with PHP which makes it the major server-side scripting language in the universe of web development.

And the top most used PHP frameworks like Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Yii 2, Phalcon, CakePHP, Zend, Slim, etc. with robust technical capabilities tend to make it difficult to make a choice.

Let’s find out in this blog that takes a deep dive into how Laravel PHP framework has outranked others and become an optimal choice for designing premium business software.

What is Laravel?

The most starred PHP framework on GitHub and a go-to framework for people all over the world!

Laravel is a comprehensive framework designed for rapidly building applications using the MVC architecture and allows to takes opportunities of HTML. Laravel Development facilitates developers to build an amazing app using simple and expressive syntax due to its capability of handling complex web apps in a scalable and secure manner.

As compared to the other frameworks, this all-inclusive framework helps in speeding up the development process and simplifies common tasks such as authentication, caching, sessions and routing.

It takes out the hassle of code organization.
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Reasons why Laravel is prevalently used:

• Laravel promotes to use NoSQL structures like MongoDB & Redis.
• Laravel helps with the query management and automatic code management without interfering with the front-end.
• It can be used for very large application or simple JSON-based APIs.
• Queue management is also a feature that handles tasks in the background and then logs the activity for you all while tasks are normally run in the frontend.
• Laravel PHP framework with the artisan command line utility makes code testing easy.
• It features tons of laravel specific packages, RESTful controllers, a packaging system, ORM, unit testing and the lightweight Blade templating engine.

Laravel vs other top PHP frameworks

The screenshot below quickly gives the once-over state of the individual popularity of the top PHP Frameworks in the past 5 years.
Source: Google Trends

It is ceratin that Laravel still remains the most seeked framework for all new PHP web development projects, when surveying Google Trends.

A Laravel developer has been upgrading its web applications to Laravel versions and using its built-in features and concepts to save a significant amount of time, thus increasing productivity and competitiveness throughout these years.

News Update: Laravel 5.8.8 with a new query builder method and the latest fixes in the 5.8 branch has been released on 27 March 2019.

Comparison Chart of top PHP frameworks

Let’s look at the comparison between Laravel and other PHP frameworks on the basis of ease of implementation, documentation, features and community support.

Framework	Features	Documentation	Community Support	Ease of Implementation
Laravel	Implements ORM technology Access to databases directly with the help of its query builder Supports MVC architecture Flexible and scalable Secure framework Fast execution	Easy Documentation	Full Community Support
CakePHP	Works on MVC Has ORM features Contains all features of OOps Scalable Built-in validation Supports CRUD operations	No specific guidelines for documentation	Weak Support
Symfony	Based on MVC Flexible URI routing Session management Reusability of code Database classes support different platforms Security against  forgery, cross-site requests and many more threats	Good Documentation	Active Community Support
Zend	Object Oriented framework Implements MVC architecture Supports PostgreSQL, SQL, etc. Features for flexible URI routing Reusability of code Features like session management, data encryption and more	Difficult Documentation	Active Community Support
CodeIgniter	Lightweight framework Supports MVC architecture Classes to help developers perform complicated tasks Has many features like security, data encryption, session management, and more	Well-written Documentation	Lacks widespread support

Top Laravel Framework Benefits for Web Developers:

1. Easy URL routing configuration

Most of the users never return on the web page or use a link when its URL is blank or when redirect to a blank page instead of displaying the desired content such as piece of description, or form or an article. That can cost you a huge customer base.

Laravel’s Takeaway: Laravel route simply accepts a URL and closure, and provide a simple method for defining identifiable and easy routes.

2. Appropriate Segregation of presentation logic from business logic code

What if the application (whole coding) has an inappropriate separation at a prior stage of the development? It creates difficulty in fixing the bugs and feature request that otherwise can easily be made by developers with less time consumption.

Source: Google

Laravel’s Takeaway: The separation of expression and logic syntax has been already done, as Laravel maintains MVC (Model View Controller).

3. Smooth Automation of testing work

To know the performance ratio whether the application will perform without any errors, bugs or crashes, automation testing is used as a traditional, less time consuming testing method.

Laravel’s Takeaway: Laravel offers the easiest way i.e. if users click the links then fills out the form respectively. Laravel facilitates a support service for testing with PHP Unit with phpunit.xml file which has been already set up for the application.

4. Effortless Configuration & Exception error handling

When it comes for user satisfaction and usability of the application, exception handling plays the important role.

For example, when the user performs data-entry forms action and after submitting a pop-up comes with multiple lines of error such as “do not enter more than 10 digits” or “please fill the correct format”.

In the case, user might decide not to come for further usage of this application if error handling is not implementing in the well-furnished way. And you would never want to lose valuable customer because of service unavailability!

Source: Google

Laravel’s Takeaway: Laravel already configured exception and error handling mechanism as the prerequisite.

Laravel’s Monolog Logging library handles multiple logs simultaneously and provides huge support for the variety of powerful log handler.

5. Painless Integration with Mail System

It’s become hard to visualize the modern system without email integration nowadays i.e. if users successfully login to the system without receiving the email notification related to successful registration over the web portal; as mailing service is required to notify users for every segment of activities performed by them.

Source: Google

Laravel’s Takeaway: Laravel facilitates simple API configuration for mails with individual accounts with its “SwiftMailer” Library.

Laravel also offers drivers that allow application for quickly start sending emails by local or cloud-based services.

6. Built-in Authentication & Authorization System

The important thing for Web Proprietor is authorizing the requested claimed access right and identifying the authorized users, which helps to refuse the access permissions to unauthorized users for the secured resources.

Laravel’s Takeaway: Laravel allows making the authentication technique simple by providing the efficient or organized route to define the authorization logic and control access to resources with simplicity.

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