Alternatives to Laravel
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Laravel is the most popular PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell and first released in 2011. Laravel brought modern developer experience to PHP — elegant syntax, expressive ORM (Eloquent), built-in authentication, queues, caching, and a powerful CLI (Artisan) — rescuing PHP's reputation after years of poorly structured codebases.
Django
Python equivalent with stronger ML ecosystem and growing developer adoption
Ruby on Rails
Ruby equivalent — similar conventions, smaller community than Laravel
Symfony
Mature PHP framework that underlies many CMS systems — more modular than Laravel
Next.js
Modern JavaScript full-stack — replacing PHP in many new web projects
WordPress
PHP CMS for content sites — simpler for non-developers but less flexible
CodeIgniter
Lightweight PHP framework — simpler than Laravel for small projects
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