Laravel
Laravel is the dominant PHP framework, bundling routing, ORM, queues, auth, and scheduling behind expressive, convention-driven APIs. Its first-party ecosystem covers everything from billing to real-time events.
Pros
- Batteries included. Auth, queues, caching, and scheduling ship in the framework. 0
- Eloquent ORM. Expressive ActiveRecord models make common queries one-liners. 0
- First-party ecosystem. Forge, Vapor, Horizon, and Cashier solve deployment and billing. 0
- Gentle learning curve. Excellent docs and conventions get juniors productive fast. 0
- Huge community. Packages and answers exist for nearly every problem. 0
Cons
- Runtime performance. PHP request-per-process throughput trails Go and Node under load. 0
- Magic obscures flow. Facades and container bindings hide execution paths from newcomers. 0
- Upgrade churn. Yearly major versions require ongoing maintenance attention. 0
- ORM query traps. Careless Eloquent usage produces hidden N+1 query storms. 0