I started my career with PHP, but I am no longer using it. Seeing recent AMAs I am fascinated about the recent growth in PHP/Laravel world. So, my question is what are the things you like the most in Laravel?
There is a lot of things, but I think Collections is one of the best.
Hi,
The best thing about programming with laravel is that you dont just code in laravel. You communicate with the framework, and it answers to you beautifully! And if someone else is reading the code, it is as if he/she is reading a book. Its that simple!
At the same time laravel is one framework which can stand with you in really tough times. believe me! #loveLaravel!
The most important thing in my opinion is the mindset. It has all the cool features you would expect from a high end framework and it continues to add features all the time. Anyone can read about those in documentation, but features are present in many other strong frameworks, such as Zend or Symfony. Laravel makes it feel like is easy to grasp some of the concepts that in other frameworks bend your mind and add to cognitive load. You need a minimal amount of semantics to perform a task, and is clear that a lot of effort was invested into making the api that easy to work with. There are multiple ways of doing things, appropriate for the needs of small or big projects, and/or different skill levels. Also, the people behind the framework have a level of contagious enthusiasm that makes you fall in love with that community just by observing their passion.
I love how simple and how fast it makes my development. But if you want more, I love Laravel's:
I am literally in love with the framework.
Simplicity and how fast I can develop, and also the huge resource I find on Laracasts.com, which makes it very easy to adopt things as long as you agree with Jeffrey
Daniel Abbatt
I find it easier to keep things modular as the routing model, services, templates and ORM allow you to put code where it belongs. I never quite manage the single responsibility ideal, but I find Laravel helps.