Guys welcome to the introductory part of Laravel. In this chapter, we will discuss what is a framework, what Laravel is, and why we use Laravel. we understand the Framework into two parts one is a general Framework and the other is a software Framework.

What is a Framework?

What is a real-life general framework? A framework is made up of certain rules, ideas, or beliefs so that you can deal with any problems or decide what to do. Suppose, you’re a student and living your student life. Every morning wake up, you have a habit to eat noodles. when you eat noodles at that time you have a plan behind the making of noodles, arrange spices from other sources, arrange noodles and prepare vegetables from other sources and then you turn the whole process into making and after that, you eat
noodles in a fully processed manner. This is a real-life example but at markets, readymade noodles packets come on that’s what you have to do. you only need to do, everything they provide you with
instant prepared noodles, you get rules, ideas, or beliefs. it means that spices, noodles, and prepared vegetables, you will get everything in it.

Simply, what have you done? you just boiled, made, and are ready to go. we were in one phase in which we worked on a core concept, which means we prepared everything to itself from scratch. we were working from scratch at that we were preparing veggies, arranging noodles, and spies from itself whereas we used packet noodles where we get spices, veggies, and noodles at one place. you just made and
your work has done, you nothing start from scratch. Everything your work was done from previous and just used it and your work went.

Now, let’s talk about software framework, we’re talking about Laravel software so, a software framework is a platform that helps us to develop applications. it provides us with classes, functions, database configurations, and packages. if you are working on web applications or making server site applications. one thing is that this framework gives you readymade all things. This way! you may call it a software framework.

What is Laravel?

So, let’s talk about Laravel. what is Laravel? it is a PHP-based web framework that helps us in managing website front-end and back-end. it is an open-source and free to use, anyone can use it without paying any fee. The ideal feature of Laravel is to it basically works on the model-view-controller(MVC) architectural patterns. it was developed by Taylor Otwell in July 2011 and meanwhile, we’re using the latest version of Laravel(v8.x). Like how the changes coming in technology, it has become the most popular and best framework because of how much frameworks of php, among all the most popular framework names come to Laravel. what does Laravel do? it uses artisan CLI(Command line interface) for the working process. when you work on a Laravel model view controller then you have to keep some knowledge about the command line.

Why Laravel?

Let’s understand why we much prefer Laravel. There are certain reasons:

• It works on MVC and follows the object-Oriented approach for security enhancement.
• It has in-built authentication and authorization for the system.
• If you want to send mail, load data, and excel So, a packaging system is available for this.
• Multiple File Systems
• Artisan Console
• Eloquent ORM is a class-based approach for managing databases.
• It has its own templating engine by the name of the blade for representing the view.
• Task scheduling
• Events and Broadcasting
• Testing

From a certain year, Laravel is coming to update itself, and if you want to make a future in Laravel and also want a high-paying job then you need to learn Laravel.