Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. you'll find, it's a joy to use, and just might make you enjoy writing PHP again. It's that good. Laravel has become on of the most popular if not the most popular PHP framework. Why is Laravel so popular? Because once you learn it, creating complex applications are easy to do, because thousands of other people have created code we can plug (packages) in to our Laravel application to make it even better.

Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as:

• Simple, fast routing engine
• Powerful dependency injection container
• Multiple back-ends for session and cache storage
• Expressive, intuitive database ORM
• Database agnostic schema migrations
• Robust background job processing
• Real-time event broadcasting

Laravel is accessible, yet powerful, providing tools needed for large, robust applications.

Laravel was created as an attempt to provide a more advanced alternative to the CodeIgniter framework, which did not provide certain features such as built-in support for user authentication and authorization . Now it provides everything that can be expected from a MVC framework.

Reasons why to choose Laravel over other PHP frameworks.

1) Easy to get started It's easy to get started. Even if you're aware of just basics of PHP, You can easily develop 5 page site in just couple of hours.

2) Open Source Laravel is free, open source framework that will allow you to build small to large & complex web applications easily. All you need is a text editor & PHP installation to get started.

3) Emerging Quickly Currently Laravel is best & most used framework according to Google Trends . why many companies have already adopted this framework because It can handle Extremely big projects with ease.

4) Follows MVC Laravel is based on MVC Architecture and In development, Transparency between business logic & presentation is important. It has plenty of built-in-functions, MVC increases performance & provides better documentation.

5) Community Support You're stuck and there's someone, who already gone through it & who can guide you, then, development would be less painful. You'll get stuck with many problems related to development. If you report any bug or security breach in framework, response of community is quick.

6) Secure In Nature and Built upon best Laravel uses some of the best component of symfony. Still, it is different then symphony. It uses composer as a dependency manager, which manages dependencies of various libraries in your project. Laravel's ORM uses PDO, which prevents SQL injections. Laravel's csrf protection prevents cross site request forgery. It's syntax automatically escapes any html entities being passed via view parameters, which prevents cross site scripting. All you have to do is, using the proper components of the framework.

7) Blade Templating & Migration for Database Migration allows you to maintain database structure of application without re-creating it. Instead of using SQL, migration allows you to write php code to control Database. Migrations allows you to rollback most recent changes you made to Database. Laravel ships with blade template engine by default, which allows you to use plain php code in your application. Two primary benefits of using blades are, Template Inheritance & sections. And it allows you to do following things. Define sections, Extend views, Echo & escaping Conditional statements, Looping & Includes.

8) Testing is easy with laravel Testing is important thing for your application. Laravel provides facility for Unit Testing. Sometimes new changes can break systems unexpectedly. Laravel runs many tests to ensure stability of application.

Conclusion To conclude, I can say that, Laravel is best framework in industry which is less known for failures. And It runs regardless of which platform you’re running your system on. This framework is effective and promising which has created many opportunities.