Laravel's Advantages

• Modularity: Laravel was built on top of over 20 different libraries and is itself split up into individual modules. Tightly integrated with Composer Dependency Manager, it can be updated with ease.

• Testability: Built from the ground up to ease testing, Laravel ships with several helpers that let you visit routes from your tests, crawl the resulting HTML, ensure that methods are called on certain classes, and even impersonate authenticated users.

• Routing: Laravel gives you a lot of flexibility when you define the routes of your application. For example, you may manually bind a simple anonymous function to a route with an HTTP verb, such as GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE.This feature is inspired by micro-frameworks, such as Sinatra (Ruby) and Silex (PHP). Moreover, it is possible to attach filter functions that are

executed on particular routes.

• Configuration management: More often than not, your application will be running in different environments, which means that the database or e-mail server credentials settings or the displaying of error messages will be different when your app is running on a local development server than when

it is running on a production server. Laravel lets you define settings for each environment and then automatically selects the right settings depending on

where the app is running.

• Query builder and ORM: Laravel ships with a fluent query builder, which lets you issue database queries with a PHP syntax where you simply chain methods instead of writing SQL. In addition to this, it provides you with an Object relational mapper (ORM) and ActiveRecord implementation, called Eloquent, which is similar to what you would find in Ruby on Rails to help you define interconnected models. Both the query builder and the ORM are compatible with different databases, such as PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL,

and SQL Server.

• Schema builder, migrations, and seeding: Also inspired by Rails, these features allow you to define your database schema with PHP code and keep track of any changes with the help of database migrations. A migration is a simple way of describing a schema change and how to revert to it. Seeding allows you to populate selected tables of your database, for example, after running a migration.