# laravel/laravel

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

Repository: https://github.com/laravel/laravel
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/laravel
Homepage: https://laravel.com
Language: Blade
License Family: other
Topics: php, framework, laravel
Last push: 2026-08-25T16:27:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5565, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 7, "n_releases_24m": 58}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 84878, forks 24890 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:23.036208+00:00)

## What it is
Laravel is a batteries-included PHP web application framework with expressive syntax, covering routing, ORM (Eloquent), migrations, queues, caching, authentication, and testing. It is a progressive full-stack framework that supports Blade/Livewire PHP frontends as well as React, Vue, and Svelte via Inertia, and now includes AI-native tooling like Laravel Boost.

## Use cases
- build a full-stack web application in php
- create a rest api backend with routing and validation
- manage database schema migrations and orm models
- process background jobs and queues
- build a web app with react or vue frontend
- add authentication and session handling to a web app
- learn php web development with a beginner-friendly framework

## When to choose
- you want a batteries-included php framework with strong conventions and documentation
- you need routing, orm, queues, auth, and testing out of the box
- you are building anything from a small site to a large professional web application
- you want first-party support for both php (blade/livewire) and javascript (react/vue/svelte) frontends

## When to avoid
- you need a microframework with minimal footprint and no conventions
- your stack is not php
- you want to compose your own stack from independent libraries rather than an opinionated framework

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: stable
- function: web-framework, routing, orm, templating, caching, middleware, api-framework, auth, testing
- domain: web-development, backend, developer-tools, apis
- platform: php, cross-platform, cli
- tags: mvc, eloquent, blade, queues, full-stack, batteries-included, laravel, web-server

## Member repositories
- laravel/laravel (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:23.036208+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:13:53.808894+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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  - homepage: https://laravel.com (fetched 2026-08-28T17:39:30.239914+00:00, sha 0d9667b7aaff)
  - site_page: https://laravel.com/docs/frontend (fetched 2026-08-28T17:39:30.258216+00:00, sha 0b530d17b830)
  - site_page: https://laravel.com/framework/docs (fetched 2026-08-28T17:39:30.249477+00:00, sha 7cbbd768d301)
  - site_page: https://laravel.com/framework/docs/releases (fetched 2026-08-28T17:39:30.252211+00:00, sha d8b3ed6d8d75)
  - site_page: https://laravel.com/docs/ (fetched 2026-08-28T17:39:30.254177+00:00, sha 2039cadfd0a5)
  - site_page: https://laravel.com/cloud/docs/preview-environments (fetched 2026-08-28T17:39:30.256367+00:00, sha b5b7ceb9e1af)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.