Laravel provides model, view, and controller-based architectural patterns and it has an expressive syntax which makes it object-oriented and relatively easy to use. Amongst 40 PHP frameworks, what makes Laravel stand out? It definitely stands out amongst many others like CodeIgniter, Symfony, Laminas Project, Phalcon, CakePHP, Yii, FuelPHP, Slim, PHPixie, and Fat-Free Framework, to name the best few. Plus, Laravel is definitely an advancement over early PHP frameworks like PHPlib, Pear, and Horde. Here’s more on Laravel, why it is preferred, and the types of applications that we can build by using it!