From the course: Exploring and Selecting PHP Frameworks
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Laravel
From the course: Exploring and Selecting PHP Frameworks
Laravel
Laravel has been around since 2011. The last several years have shown a huge rise in popularity, and as a result, this MVC framework is a great choice for many projects. I'm going to give a short tour through Laravel code at the end of this video, but first, I want to call it the ecosystem around Laravel. I won't read you all of these, but I encourage you to start here. Most types of web application skeletons can be assembled from these different packages. Some are packages documented in Laravel Docs, but some are commercial packages like Spark and some are subscriptions like Vapor. I want to take some time to install and understand Laravel code. First, the install. This uses the composer create project command. And that'll create a new project from an existing one, in this case Laravel. And I'll put that in the Laravel directory. And then I'll CD into Laravel and run php artisan serve. This will run a local environment for testing. And I'll click the link. And here is a basic running…