While there are a handful of frameworks for PHP—Symfony, Yii, CodeIgniter, Phalcon, CakePHP—Laravel remains the most popular. Laravel can be used as a full-stack framework to build monolithic applications or as a powerful API back-end for your microservices.
Among Laravel’s many strengths, you’ll find that its large, dedicated community has built a wide array of tools and services. Packages like Cashier, Breeze, and Echo, and services like Forge and Vapor make building scalable applications fast and efficient.