Laravel is a free and open-source PHP web framework that was created by Taylor Otwell in 2011. It is designed for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern and is based on Symfony. Some of the features of Laravel include a modular packaging system with a dedicated dependency manager, different ways for accessing relational databases, utilities that aid in application deployment and maintenance, and its orientation toward syntactic sugar. Laravel is accessible yet powerful, providing powerful tools needed for large, robust applications. It is a popular PHP-based back-end framework and comes with the features necessary to build modern web apps at scale. Laravel is used for creating extensible PHP-based websites and web applications at scale.