Laravel framework - An overview and usability for web development
- 1. Laravel webdevelopmentcompany India http://www.ifour-consultancy.com Laravel framework: An overview and Usability for web development
- 2. Laravel webdevelopmentcompany India http://www.ifour-consultancy.com Contents Introduction.......................................................................................................................................3 Architecture.......................................................................................................................................3 Technicalities.....................................................................................................................................4 Where is it used.................................................................................................................................4 Advantages........................................................................................................................................5 Disadvantages....................................................................................................................................5 Popular Websites on It.......................................................................................................................6 References.........................................................................................................................................7
- 3. Laravel webdevelopmentcompany India http://www.ifour-consultancy.com Introduction Laravel is considered to be a clean and classy framework for PHP web development. It helps in creating wonderful applications,using simple, expressivesyntax thus freeing from spaghetticode. Laravel framework was released in June 2011 and is owned by Taylor Otwell (Laravel, 2015). Architecture Laravel Architecture (Laravelbook, 2015) The Model: These models are based on the real-world items such as a person, bank account, or product. If one plans to build a blog, the models will include post and comment. Models are typically permanent and will be stored outside the application, often in a database. A model is more than just data as it enforces all the business rules that will be applied to that data. The View: The visual representation of a model. The view acts as the resulting markup
- 4. Laravel webdevelopmentcompany India http://www.ifour-consultancy.com that the framework renders to the browser, such as the HTML representing the blog post. The view layer is responsible for generating a user interface, normally based on data in the model. The Controller: The controller acts as a coordinator providing the link between the view and the model. The controller is responsible for processing input, acting upon the model, and deciding on what action should be performed, such as rendering a view or redirecting to another page. Technicalities Some of the technicalities that make Laravel a classy framework (Laravel Application Development, 2015) are: RESTful Routing- Laravel helps by allowing use of simple closures to act in response to requests to your application. Beautiful Templating- with Blade templating engine, it provides awesome template inheritance and is super-fast to act. Flexible- Laravel is built keeping in mind the flexibility and size of application demanded by versatile entities. Thus it allows a developer to build custom JSON API’s application up to huge enterprise applications. Testing- Laravel is built keeping Testing in mind so as to make it easier for developers to know the outcome of their code, instantly. Where is it used Some of the applications of Laravel are (Laravel, 2015) : 1. Laravel 5.0 provides simplified mechanisms for authentication with different Oauth providers include Facebook ,twitter, Google, Git hub and Bit-bucket. 2. Laravel 5.0 is a File Systemabstraction layer that allows local file systems and cloud-based storage services provided by Amazon S3 and Rack-space Cloud to be used transparently and in the same way. 3. Laravel 4.2 provides an interface for managing subscription billing services provided by Stripe, such as handling Coupons and generating invoices. 4. Laravel 4.1, allows programmatic execution of CLI commands on remote servers using the Secure Shell (SSH) as an encrypted network protocol.
- 5. Laravel webdevelopmentcompany India http://www.ifour-consultancy.com Advantages Some of the advantages are (Laravel Developers, 2015) : 1. Modularity is built in via “bundles”, making it really easy to drop in/reuse code across application 2. Eloquent ORM is a simple, super fast ORMthat makes working with database relations easy 3. Performance, load and stress testing 4. Staying up-to-date with latest technology 5. Very configurable and extendable. I can set up apps with the folder structure the way like it and how it works best for me. 6. Blade template engine. Very fast (compiles to PHP then caches the results) and very extendable. So easy to add new features without hacking the core. 7. Reverse routing 8. Excellent documentation. 9. Multi-browser compatibility 10. Highly maintainable code 11. Solid Version Control System 12. User friendly Interfaces Disadvantages Some of the disadvantages are (Reddit, 2015): 1. Caching abilities seem to be quite limited. 2. If you try to figure out why something's not working, you'll probably land on documentation that won't help you. 3. While the community is seen as great and polite, it's very lacking in size. 4. A lot of the functions in Laravel are tricky especially when it comes to database work. 5. The biggest disadvantage is that everything is hidden behind a facade. This means that they use standard dependency injection for a lot of things, but then hide it behind a facade with magic methods.
- 6. Laravel webdevelopmentcompany India http://www.ifour-consultancy.com Popular Websites on It As per (Builtwith, 2015), there 74,254 websites that have used Laravel and out of these 46,951 websites are currently live. Some of the popular sites that have used Laravel are http://www.pixable.com http://www.gtav.net http://www.religionfacts.com http://www.docasap.com http://www.wonderopolis.org
- 7. Laravel webdevelopmentcompany India http://www.ifour-consultancy.com References Builtwith. (2015, June 3).RetrievedfromBuiltwith:https://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Laravel Freewebsitereport.(n.d.).Retrieved0605, 2014, from Freewebsitereport: http://www.freewebsitereport.org/ Laravel.(2015, June 2). RetrievedfromWikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laravel Laravel Application Development.(2015,June 3). RetrievedfromBacancyTechnology: http://www.bacancytechnology.com/laravel-web-application-development Laravel Developers.(2015, June 3). RetrievedfromComentum:http://www.comentum.com/laravel- developers.html Laravelbook.(2015, June 2).RetrievedfromLaravelbook.com:http://laravelbook.com/laravel- architecture/ Linkedin.(n.d.).Retrieved0605, 2014, from Linkedin:http://www.linkedin.com Reddit.(2015, June 3).RetrievedfromReddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/z5hwu/what_do_you_guys_think_of_laravel_framew ork/