Laravel is a set of PHP components as well as a free framework written in PHP by Taylor Otwell in 2011.
Create your tailor-made platform with Laravel
Laravel is the benchmark for PHP frameworks. Victim, of growing popularity Laravel makes it possible to develop and update custom-made platforms and websites.
Why use Laravel?
Laravel is a recognized framework and today its popularity rating is only increasing! Many arguments also explain this rise in power.
1. An architecture based on the MVC model
Based on certain Symfony bricks , Laravel is based on an MVC or Model View Controller architecture, that is to say that there is a separate code for the business part of the application and a presentation code for the views. In this way we have the different layers that make up our applications perfectly separated. This specificity contributes to the maintainability of the code and therefore of the applications.
2. An elegant and easily intelligible code
Laravel is renowned for the clarity and organization of its code ! For example, to use Laravel it is necessary to respect certain elements.
- Anonymous functions: Laravel systematically uses these functions which improve the readability of the code.
- Traits: Traits allow you to add properties and methods to a class without going through inheritance, this allows you to go beyond the limitation of simple inheritance proposed by default by PHP.
- Facades: To make the code even cleaner Laravel uses what are called “facades”, these are classes that allow easy access to services present in the container.
3. An important community
Today, Laravel is the most used framework in the world ! His large community has allowed him to grow to become one of the best frameworks. Indeed, new versions of Laravel are released regularly (every 6 months). In addition, many sites, guides and documentation are available for anyone wishing to embark on development with Laravel! For example, the laracasts site offers many video courses and podcasts in order to progress under this framework.
4. Easy to grip and use
Laravel is a fast and easy-to-use technology thanks to its numerous guides and documentation (laracasts for example, see above).
In addition, as we saw above, the architecture and operation of Laravel is easy to learn and master. Indeed Laravel installs easily and quickly, unlike other PHP frameworks, there is no long configuration to set up, everything is already ready and very well documented. “No more hours of reading technical documentation, Laravel goes to basics and it works!”
In addition, Laravel offers the installation of many very useful basic modules such as an authentication module managing the login, password and forgotten password for example.
5. Interconnected with other tools
Coupled with Laravel Horizon , the framework offers a reliable solution to have a large-scale parallelization of treatments.
In addition, Laravel integrates natively Redis which makes it possible to store the cache data or even the session data of the users. These data are then accessible with flash reading times on this cache using the server’s RAM memory allowing a reduced site loading speed!
Also Laravel integrates by default Pusher. Pusher is a solution allowing and facilitating the addition of data and functionalities in real time to Web and mobile applications. Thus the establishment and development of chat, messaging, notifications, dashboards and data visualization, collaborative applications, multiplayer games and live ranking are facilitated thanks to Pusher!
6. Security
Laravel is reputed to be a very secure framework indeed, by default cookies are encrypted allowing to secure the data of Internet users. Thanks to Token csrf, forms and requests carrying data are secure by ensuring that they come from the user himself and not from a hacker who has impersonated
In addition Laravel offers solutions for AES encryption , thanks to the mcrypt PHP extension, which strongly encrypts passwords and all other sensitive user data.
Basic HTTP authentication gives a quick way to authenticate users of the application without having to set up a dedicated login page.
7. Tests and quality
Laravel is delivered and built with default tests, so writing tests (unit, functional, integration) is greatly facilitated! For example support for testing with PHPUnit is included and a phpunit.xml file is already configured by default for the application. In addition, the Laravel framework also comes with practical assistance methods to easily and expressly test the application created.
Finally, the integration of Laravel Dusk makes it possible to carry out and facilitate the implementation of browser tests to validate proper operation on the front office side (Internet user).
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