Laravel app development

The Laravel framework is a popular and efficient way to develop web applications. Its elegant syntax, structure, scalability, and rich functionality make it an ideal choice for creating highly interactive websites. Moreover, Laravel works great as an API for many kinds of applications. Furthermore, the Laravel Framework integrates well with any third-party software. That's why many businesses so often choose it all across the world.

Laravel is a PHP framework with an expressive and elegant syntax. It utilizes the model–view–controller (MVC) architecture.

Let's start with the heart of Laravel - PHP. It is an open-source backend scripting language designed for writing web pages and web applications.

It is estimated that up to 80% of websites on the Internet are based on PHP. Frameworks created with it offer many code libraries where you can find pre-programmed modules.

The advantages of such a solution include faster development because developers no longer have to write each line of code separately and much better conditions for later maintenance.

Laravel operates on MVC architecture which divides the application into exactly as many parts as the abbreviation has letters:

M (Model) - data,

V (View) - an interface on which you can see the data and modify it,

C (Controller) - operations that can be performed on the data.

Structuring the application in such a way ensures that there is no clutter in it, and the code is well organized, which provides much more excellent stability for your web application.

Laravel uses the Symfony PHP framework as a skeleton but adds a lot of its logic and features that cannot be found anywhere else.

The list of Laravel's features is long; find out about the most important ones for your business!

Localization

Laravel has built-in translation solutions for easy multilingual web app development. It makes it ideal for websites that need to be translated into other languages or international projects.

Caching

Web development is all about making access fast and easy for the user. Laravel's expressive and unified API for cache backends enables web applications to be more efficient by taking advantage of lightning-fast data retrieval.

The result is always a tremendous performative web app!

Dependency Management

This feature allows you to implement various packages (including third-party) into a code without needing to do it manually. It makes using packages faster and fully compatible. Composer, which is a PHP dependency manager, is responsible for this.

Modularity

Modularity is the degree to which a developer can combine, separate, and then recombine an app's components. Laravel's modular packaging system makes it easy to add functionalities to your application without building them from scratch.

Modularity enables you to develop large-scale applications quickly and efficiently while ensuring fewer errors.

Unique Unit-testing

Laravel framework offers a unique way to test a web app. With Laravel's built-in unit tests, developers can run several different cases and make sure that the changes don't harm the web app in any way. Website developers can also write the test cases on their own.

Authentication

Authenticating is both the most important and one of the most time-consuming things in web development. Laravel makes it simpler and faster with an in-built authentication system that only requires models, views, and controllers to be configured for your app to work flawlessly.

Laravel comes in with its template engine called Blade Templating Engine. It can create great performative views by encoding templates into cached PHP code.

Compared with other templating engines, Blade allows developers to use plain PHP code.

Laravel has had 20 versions since its initial release. The list of its versions is as follows:

 Laravel 1
 Laravel 2
 Laravel 3 (3.1; 3.2)
 Laravel 4 (4.1; 4.2)
 Laravel 5 (5.1 LTS; 5.2; 5.3; 5.4; 5.5 LTS; 5.6; 5.7; 5.8)
 Laravel 6 LTS
 Laravel 7
 the newest Laravel 8