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adnan haider
adnan haider

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Is Laravel and PHP learning now a days worthy?

Hi, i am flutter front end developer and know i want to learn backend is it worthy to learn php laravel as a backend or should move to node js.. kindly tell me about it

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In my personal opinion: absolutely. PHP remains the dominant language on the web, and even more so when limiting it to back-end only applications (so pure APIs).

Laravel might be a beast when you aren't used to OOP programming in general, but the huge community and exceptionally well maintained laracast world should help you out. BUT: the learning curve might be a little rough if you directly jump into laravel before solid PHP fundamentals.

The ability to write anything from procedural spaghetti to highly abstract and efficient code is why PHP enthusiasts love the language and PHP haters despise it. So be aware that some YT tutorials might introduce you to worst practices code. As a rule of thumb, you can spot those by seeing PHP code and HTML mixed within one file.

Lastly, let me end with a little self-promotion:
It might not be suitable for a complete beginner, but feel free to check out my PHP rest-api tutorial on YT