Laravel is a popular, open-source web application development framework that is written in the PHP programming language. It makes building websites and web applications easier by providing web developers with pre-written application code and classes you can use in your own app. This means you can start developing a web app right away using Laravel's built-in features instead of writing all the code from scratch. Laravel comes with a complete authentication system that you only have to configure for your own application. It has an Object Relational Mapping (ORM) library called Eloquent that allows developers to interact with types of relational databases using only PHP. Eloquent will generate the SQL to query a database for you in most cases. Laravel also uses Artisan, which has built-in commands you can use to generate a lot of the application code automatically.

There are many reasons Laravel became the most popular PHP web development framework. It comes with built-in authentication and access control and will even generate the registration, login, and password reset pages for you with a single command. The Laravel framework also uses the Model, View, and Controller (MVC) pattern with which many developers are already familiar. It comes with email libraries that simplify email integration (every developer knows that can be complex), and the framework has built-in caching capabilities, which can increase the performance of a web application. Another strength of this application is its exception handling, which hides errors from end-users but provides developers with advanced error logs. It is designed to be secure; it has built-in CRSF form protection and encrypts the passwords of users by default. Other features of Laravel include simple database integration and simple route creation.

Laravel makes PHP web development easier, but there are a few things it helps to know before you learn Laravel. The most obvious one is knowledge of the PHP programming language. Start with the basics, but also learn how to use object-oriented programming in PHP. You should know how objects, classes, properties, methods, and traits work in PHP to make the most of Laravel. You should also know how to run commands using the command line to take advantage of the commands that make Laravel development easy. Since Laravel uses Composer to manage the PHP libraries installed in your application, you should have a basic knowledge of this PHP package management system. To create the templates that Laravel uses, you need to know HTML. And while Laravel's ORM Eloquent will take care of most database queries for you, a knowledge of SQL will be handy when writing more complex queries.