Introduction

Laravel is one of the most widely used PHP frameworks at this time. It makes the lives of us PHP developers a lot easier by providing us with all sorts of tools.

Some examples of these tools are:

• MVC structure (Allowing us to easily create API's that interact with our databases)
• Eloquent (to interact with the database using the query builder or ORM)
• Environment based configuration
• Automated testing tools (PHPUnit, Dusk)
• Command line interface integration (Allowing us to run background tasks through cron for example)
• Many more...