Laravel is the most popular PHP framework built by Taylor Otwell and community. It uses MVC architecture pattern. It provides a lot of features like a complete Authentication System, Database Migrations, A Powerful ORM, Pagination, and so on. Before creating the application, you will need to have PHP 7.2 and MySQL (we are not using apache in this series) and composer installed. I use xampp which is a package that comes with PHP, MySQL, and Apache. Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. It’s similar to npm which is a dependency manager for Javascript. Also, read the server requirements for laravel if you run into installation errors.