I'm making this post because OctoberCMS (OCMS) really helped simplify the development process for me. After nearly 10 years away from web development, I was loo

I'm making this post because OctoberCMS (OCMS) really helped simplify the development process for me. After nearly 10 years away from web development, I was looking to get back into the industry. The last time I worked with PHP we were using header/footer includes to stitch together everything from e-commerce to blogging sites. Fast forward to 2017-2018 and frameworks had really blossomed. After researching different platforms/frameworks to learn, it became clear that Laravel would be a solid choice. Needing to put together a somewhat straightforward community driven site with user authentication and blogging, I started looking to different packages that would help me when I discovered OCMS. Not only is the OCMS community extremely friendly and helpful, does OCMS make it relatively painless to implement many of the common features modern websites/apps require: user authentication, CRUD functionality, email handling, etc. Where OCMS really shines is in its extensibility. Nearly every aspect of the system/plaform can be extended with custom functionality. Furthermore, because October is built Laravel, we have access to many Laravel packages and features that any other Laravel application can use. This makes it painless to integrate an OCMS project with other services and projects, something that is not always easily achieved with WP. As long as October maintains a healthy and vibrant community and continues to push updates, I will be using it as my primary framework/platform of choice for most of my projects. Thanks for making it possible for me to get back into development and quickly learn the important aspects to modern web development!