Laravel, founded in 2011, develops the PHP framework of the same name, described as the world's most popular tool for building modern web applications. The framework provides expressive syntax and a comprehensive set of tools for projects ranging from simple apps to complex enterprise systems, and is used by millions of developers and thousands of companies globally. The open-source project has attracted more than 82,000 stars on GitHub.
Around the core framework sits an ecosystem of products and first-party packages. These span cloud infrastructure and server management - Laravel Cloud for deploying and running applications, and Laravel Forge for provisioning and managing servers - as well as developer tooling and monitoring, including Laravel Nightwatch and the Laravel Nova admin panel. First-party packages cover search and text indexing (Laravel Scout), performance (Laravel Octane), real-time WebSocket functionality (Laravel Reverb) and subscription billing (Laravel Cashier).
Technical work at the company touches PHP, web application development, frameworks, cloud infrastructure, server management, monitoring and developer tooling. The stated design priorities are developer productivity and ease of use, expressed through elegant syntax, and the framework is supported by what the company describes as the most extensive documentation in the industry. Its user base and community are global.
