# What is laravel and why it is used?

What is laravel and why it is used?

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## Comments
### Comment 1

Laravel is a PHP framework which used to create production grade battle-tested web application which is scalable

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- Author title: Senior Software Engineer | AWS Certified



### Comment 2

Laravel is software Development Framework to allow the user to build great and performant web apps.

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- Posted at: about 4 years ago
- Author title: Full-Stack Developer 



### Comment 3

Laravel is primarily used for building custom web apps using PHP. It’s a web framework that handles many things that are annoying to build yourself, such as routing, templating HTML, and authentication.

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- Posted at: over 4 years ago
- Author title: Laravel Developer




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