Ever since it was introduced in 2011, Laravel has been gaining ground constantly. And it even stood at the forefront when compared with the other frameworks like Symfony, CakePHP, Yii, CodeIgniter, etc. Reasons being 1. It comes with a shorter learning curve especially if you have sufficient knowledge of PHP basics. 2. It is based on MVC architecture that comes with easy maintenance 3. Better documentation and support is available 4. Security is stronger with in-built features 5. Faster time-to-market due to its ease with which one can build web applications 6. Efficient database migration and management 7. Artisan CLI helps to handle repetitive and tedious tasks