Should you use PHP Laravel for Freelance?

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[thraxxdv]

Laravel is the only framework I have used on PHP after a year of freelancing pure PHP. It's perfect. The validation system, the routing system, the authentication system, the database migrations (esp this), form requests, API development and a lot more. It's a very powerful framework. A lot of people look down on PHP, but honestly these guys looking down on PHP should try working with Laravel with a somewhat large-scale project or two I'm pretty sure they'll have a change of heart.

Edit after 1 year + a few months:
Framework is still awesome. I've grown a lot since then. I've used it in all my backend projects and still loving it. I primarily use it to develop APIs for mobile applications.

[thomasl]

Been working with laravel for the past 3 years (after being a magento developer for 5, and before that opencart & wordpress & codeigniter) I really love laravel, the structure is great. i recently added a symfony senior developer to my team, who has been working with laravel for the first time he has been crushing it. it's so easy to learn and the documentation / extendability is amazing

[gtdmg]

Laravel is surprisingly powerful nowadays. Ever since laravel 7, lots of things were improved significantly. New features every week, and its development is amazingly active, backed by strong communities. It's also a serious contender for large scale infrastructure thanks to laravel octane. It's also really easy to learn as well. It works out of the box, minimal configuration, and you'll start developing right away.

[vitormicillo]

Great video Stefan,
Laravel is a fantastic framework, not only because it makes delivery fast but, to help older developers like me standardize code, structure, and program more efficiently. Of course, everything can be done with just PHP without any framework.

[science_trip]

My opinion. If you are a freelancer you need to know first of all the fundamentals! After that to know a CMS is a good choice like WordPress (also building themes and plugins). Now about Laravel, YES of course is one of the best choices also for freelancers!!!! you can build custom things super easy and fast! I'm using it as a freelancer and I really love it. It makes my life much easier even more than WordPress!!!! Sometimes the customers are asking for a customization that to do them in WordPress is much more difficult than by writing code in Laravel. So believe me you need to know also WordPress also Laravel as freelancer

[AmmarTaicho]

In Saudi Laravel is the most famous framework for freelancing and companies. We have companies worth billions and most of them used Laravel in thier SAAS

[ward]

Have definitely heard a lot of IT architects here in my country say that Laravel does not really fit what they need. And when I ask - how's that? We need some custom features that Laravel does not provide. Just when I start working on such projects I realize - they don't even know how to properly extend Laravel features nor how to use them to get the best bang for their buck, so they think - we'll just make something to be completely custom and let's hook into the request life-cycle manually to make it work. These are the same people who think that the framework sucks lolol.

[KevinLopez-rlwq]

thanks for answering with a video Stefan! this was very useful!

[stevenhorton]

A nice thing about Laravel, is that you're learning a lot of the fundamentals of Symfony, and when you want to switch, it's easy. Python with Django pretty great too, but it's kind of buggy and not as well thought out.

[glurper]

As I started programming in PHP before Laravel, I never used it.
I built my own framework and gradually extended it over the years.
For the same reason, I also built my own CMS.
Using your own tools also has a number of advantages:
- you have total control and can transform it to suit project requirements
- you have less risk of hackers exploiting known security vulnerabilities

People who only learn frameworks tend to misunderstand what is actually happening behind the scenes, which often results in slow and bloated applications.

[Mickey_McD]

Yes we stopped using Struts II because of the security vulnerabilities. We now use Spring MVC.

[whitehat]

I like the way Django handles the SQL migrations, have not seen the same functionality on another frameworks.

[stevenofalltrades]

As a beginner this is perfect. Thank you

[AndrewErwin]

I am a freelancer myself... I have been using Laravel for about 5 years now pretty consistently. There are definitely projects for which Laravel is simply overkill. Lately I have discovered the Slim framework which is perfect (for my workflow) for smaller sites.

[joaogustavo]

HOlly, you're awsome on explaining this things! Thank you for all the knowledge!

[stefan]

The question is a little bit unclear. Should you learn Laravel in general, or is Laravel suitable for starting as a freelancer? The answer is probably yes, and not only that but Laravel is probably the best way to start with. WordPress is WordPress, a different world, you have even the October CMS built with Laravel framework. PHP is the only backend language that you can write in its vanilla form. All other languages are using frameworks. So I would argue if you don't use CMS, use framework.

[cfufvfg]

is not only welldone framework, it become a standard of coding way to organize readable php code, solid update path, community is big. most native plugin is well maintained and work on first init.

[mgr]

I like the folder structure that Django have for its apps in a project, makes them more modular and portable. Every app has their own routes and controlers, ... and not in shared folders with others.

[hinkhall]

Why not? I did. It has rewarded me very handsomely time after time.

[jbrenes]

1.75x is a GodSend to watch Stefan, love you man...but...1.75x for ya!