Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework created by Taylor Otwell in 2011. It follows the model-view-controller pattern, emphasizes expressive elegant syntax, and ships with everything needed to build modern web applications — routing, sessions, caching, authentication, queues, broadcasting, and a powerful ORM.
The first-party ecosystem (Forge, Vapor, Nova, Livewire, Inertia) covers the entire developer journey from local development to serverless production deployment.
The PHP framework for web artisans. Expressive syntax, fluent ORM, batteries-included tooling.
✨ Features
Active-record ORM. Tables map to model classes with relationships, scopes, accessors, and eager loading.
Generates boilerplate, runs migrations, dispatches queues, exposes a REPL (Tinker) for live application introspection.
Lightweight templates with inheritance, components, slots. Compiles to plain PHP for zero runtime overhead.
Unified queue API across Redis, SQS, Beanstalkd. Background processing, delayed dispatch, rate limiting built in.
Build dynamic interfaces in pure PHP — no JavaScript required. Server renders, client patches DOM.
