What is Laravel Web Development?
Laravel is an open-source, cross-platform, feature-rich, scalable PHP framework for designing engaging and robust web apps. It adheres to the model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern and comes with a collection of rich features that has the basic functionality of other PHP frameworks like Yii, CodeIgniter, and other languages like Ruby on Rails.
Laravel is the most popular and most used PHP framework and about 135,090 websites are built using Laravel web development.
Features of Laravel Web Development
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Notifications
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Email Laravel features an email API built around the SwiftMailer library, enabling you to send emails using your preferred service. Email queuing and attachments are also supported by Laravel.
Testing Laravel enables feature testing for high-level functionalities and larger code blocks and unit testing for isolated areas of app code.
Data Validation The authentication of incoming user data is made simple by Laravel. Many data validation rules with customized error messages are included in Laravel.
Templating Blade is templating engine of PHP used by Laravel that allows it to separate HTML templating and business logic creating a simple to maintain code base.
Migration Using migrations, Laravel offers version control for application databases.
Advantages and Drawbacks of Laravel Web Development
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Advantages
● Implementing exception handling, automated testing, authentication, and error handling is considerably easier.
● Provides support for Mailgun, SMTP, SparkPost, and Amazon SES along with other mail providers.
● Enables easy scaling of Web apps
● Defends against security risks like Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and SQL Injection,
● Has added security features including email verification, encryption, authentication, and hashing.
● Enables fast loading with integrated cache drivers.
● It is slower than a few other PHP frameworks
● It has lower built-in support features
● Has basic security features, but is still limited by the inherent insecurities of PHP