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Introduction to Laravel

Laravel is a stylish, compact and flexible PHP framework that focuses on clean code and speed. Laravel describes itself as a "PHP framework for web makers". It is a free and open source framework created by "Taylor Otwell", based on the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture.

Creating a web application from the beginning may be particularly difficult if you are a beginner. Even the simple web application contains many parts, and creating these parts each time you create a Web application can be repetitive and tedious and there is no point in reinventing the wheels. Here comes Laravel to solve this and other problems.

The Laravel framework provides many PHP libraries and auxiliary functions, and can help you focus on the most important parts while providing common functions and logic to speed up creation time and facilitate development.
At first, there are few things to learn, especially if you are a beginner and have no experience with any kind of web framework. But once you produce it, you will not only love it, you will become addicted to it. Laravel aims to create creativity. The word "Web Artisan" is used to refer to the hidden design within the developer's heart. The result is an effective application with fewer paths and well-designed symbols.

What you need before you start:

  • HTML / CSS (for sure).
  • PHP Basics.
  • Average level in PHP - Learn some concepts like php oop, abstraction and so on.
  • Understand the basics of the MVC Framework.
  • Perseverance . Although it is easy to learn Laravel, but you may find some difficulties from one period to another, your knowledge of PHP and frameworks and the concept of MVC may help you a lot in the speed of learning the framework of Laravel.

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Mohammed Samgan Khan

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sayeed-56

Thanks for sharing this information