Introduction
About Laravel
- Laravel is a popular (more precisely, the most popular!) PHP web application framework
- Laravel is free, open-source software
- Laravel is based on Symfony
- Laravel follows the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern
- Laravel's aim is to make development an enjoyable and creative experience by easing common tasks (authentication, database migrations/seeding, routing, templating, ...) used in most web projects
- Laravel was originally developed by Taylor Otwell in 2011 as a more advanced alternative to the CodeIgniter framework
- Current stable version (October 2021) is 8.62.0
Laravel MVC pattern
Links
- Official website of the Laravel framework
https://laravel.com/ - Laravel 7 documentation
https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/ - Laravel 7 API
https://laravel.com/api/7.x/ - Laracasts - Screencasts for the Laravel developer
https://laracasts.com/ - Coder's Tape Series - New in Laravel 7
https://coderstape.com/series/15-new-in-laravel-7 - Laravel best practices
https://github.com/alexeymezenin/laravel-best-practices/