Laravel

Developer(s)	Taylor Otwell
Initial release	June 2011
Stable release	12.9.2 / 16 April 2025
Repository	github.com/laravel/framework
Written in	PHP
Type	Web framework
License	MIT License
Website	laravel.com

Laravel is a free and open-source PHP-based web framework for building web applications.^[3] It was created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern and based on Symfony. Some of the features of Laravel include modular packaging system with a dedicated dependency manager, different ways for accessing relational databases, utilities that aid in application deployment and maintenance, and its orientation toward syntactic sugar.^[4]^[5]^{: 2, 5–9}^[6]^[7]

The source code of Laravel is hosted on GitHub and licensed under the terms of the MIT License.^[8]

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