A brief and high-level overview of the Laravel framework. Laravel is a free, backend, open-source PHP web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It embraces the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern for developing dynamic web applicatons. All of the features you need to build modern web applications, such as routing, validation, caching, queues, file storage, dependency injection (DI), authentication, and more, are built into Laravel.