What is Laravel?

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Laravel is an open-source PHP web application framework created by Taylor Otwell, first released in 2011. It follows the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architectural pattern and is built on top of several Symfony components. Laravel is known for its elegant, expressive syntax that aims to make web development enjoyable and productive. It provides out-of-the-box features for routing, authentication, sessions, caching, queues, events, database ORM (Eloquent), and more. It is consistently the most popular PHP framework, with a large ecosystem of first-party packages (Sanctum, Passport, Horizon, Telescope) and a thriving community.