I've learned quite a bit from reading through the Laravel source - https://github.com/illuminate https://github.com/illuminate edit for details: The authors ar

I've learned quite a bit from reading through the Laravel source - https://github.com/illuminate https://github.com/illuminate edit for details: The authors are quite meticulous (notoriously, every comment in a multi-line comment is 3 characters less than the previous) and stick to the "convention over configuration" mantra no doubt inspired by Ruby on Rails. It's interesting to see how they create abstractions to simplify so many common web dev tasks.