I just started with Laravel and can't compare it really well to the other frameworks, but this is what I like so far: - it's well-documented - it has an activ

I just started with Laravel and can't compare it really well to the other frameworks, but this is what I like so far: - it's well-documented - it has an active community - I simply enjoy working with it. It feels lightweight, although it probably isn't, if I take a good look at the "vendor" folder and the dependencies - I get stuff done relatively quickly Edit: So I started porting my small Laravel 4 project to 5 and to be honest, my first impression is: Laravel 5 is more like Zend Framework than the small and nice PHP framework. It lost a bit of its lightweight flair for a potentially more structured architecture, but I kind of hate to put everything in "Service Providers" and "Middleware" and whatnot. E. g. before, you had a folder "app/controllers", now you have "app/Http/Controllers" and "app/Http/Middleware" and "app/Http/Requests". While this might make sense for bigger projects, it also loses a bit of its lightweight charm. With Laravel 4, things seemed to be more straight forward.