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One of the most interesting things about the Laravel ecosystem is how an open source project has allowed multiple independent businesses spring up around the co

One of the most interesting things about the Laravel ecosystem is how an open source project has allowed multiple independent businesses spring up around the core project that facilitate things like management, deployment, etc. I know laravel is not unique in this respect, and that lots of the tooling around it is from Taylor Otwell (founder) but there are lots of others as well. I’ve always been impressed by how developer quality of life is such a high priority goal of Laravel. I think much of its adoption, and the successful businesses that have sprung up around it is a validation that they’ve done that right.

liveoneggs 7y ago
the virtuous cycle of small businesses that orbit open source projects are the ultimate measure of its success imho. These are real job creators.
smartstakestime 7y ago
do you work with Laravel ... it has not advanced dev quality of life. It has great marketing and has grabbed a % of the dev base so lots of people work with it. It has done nothing better than symfony, codeigniter, Zendframework. I feel it breeds bad coding habbits, many coders like it simplicity but when they use it they implement many inefficient functions, mostly around querying the database. Laravel has this robust query builder api so you have many novices accessing the database through it without understanding what they are doing. I dont really know what "quality of life" is provided by Laravel. Its just another MVC.
- paulryanrogers 7y ago
  Like Rails it can provide a lot of structure and packages for the routine requirements. It's ORM isn't much better or worse than others I've used. The alternatives remain popular, if less so since Laravel's marketing has kicked in. To each their own.
- jjeaff 7y ago
  Quality of life is better because you can build so much, so quickly with laravel. There is a ton that laravel can bootstrap for you out of the box and then add to that the very large ecosystem of plugins that has come out of the community.

liveoneggs 7y ago

the virtuous cycle of small businesses that orbit open source projects are the ultimate measure of its success imho. These are real job creators.

smartstakestime 7y ago

do you work with Laravel ... it has not advanced dev quality of life. It has great marketing and has grabbed a % of the dev base so lots of people work with it. It has done nothing better than symfony, codeigniter, Zendframework. I feel it breeds bad coding habbits, many coders like it simplicity but when they use it they implement many inefficient functions, mostly around querying the database. Laravel has this robust query builder api so you have many novices accessing the database through it without understanding what they are doing. I dont really know what "quality of life" is provided by Laravel. Its just another MVC.

paulryanrogers 7y ago
Like Rails it can provide a lot of structure and packages for the routine requirements. It's ORM isn't much better or worse than others I've used. The alternatives remain popular, if less so since Laravel's marketing has kicked in. To each their own.
jjeaff 7y ago
Quality of life is better because you can build so much, so quickly with laravel. There is a ton that laravel can bootstrap for you out of the box and then add to that the very large ecosystem of plugins that has come out of the community.