For the longest, while PHP applications have been using CodeIgniter or Zend as their default framework. But Laravel stands out to be the current flagship offering in PHP application development frameworks. It supports the latest PHP versions, constantly maintained and updated by – by far the largest programming community for any programming language. Laravel has gained popularity since 2011. Since then the community has been constantly improving the framework for the benefit of the coder and the application itself.

Laravel helps developers and systems architects build better applications by enforcing certain design and development rules. That said, the framework is in no way rigid. It is endlessly configurable and extensible through the many PHP libraries available.

Being built on the latest PHP – PHP 7 makes Laravel quite fast. That’s partly due to PHP-7’s inherent improvements in language, libraries and execution patterns. Combined with Laravel being optimised for execution speed.

Though it was created to be optimised with relational databases and evolved over time to work well with both SQL and NoSQL databases.

Our experts at Tivago has experience with Laravel and that has been quite varied. It is our go-to PHP web development framework for the past 6 years has developed more than 90 applications based on it. Its an end to end development framework with configurable procedures for development, testing, deployment, and maintenance