Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability

Lesson 1: use Symfony components

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Lesson 1: Use the best tools available.

There's a reason why Laravel is more popular than Symfony.

> There's a reason why Laravel is more popular than Symfony.

Yes, and that reason is being more beginner friendly at the cost of pretty much everything else. It's not related to overall quality at all.

... Laravel uses Symfony components.

Also, this is very regional.

Here in Europe, actual, big projects that need to make money use Symfony, not Laravel.