Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

Laravel aims to make the development process a pleasing one for the developer without sacrificing application functionality. Happy developers make the best code. To this end, we've attempted to combine the very best of what we have seen in other web frameworks, including frameworks implemented in other languages, such as Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET MVC, and Sinatra.

Laravel is accessible, yet powerful, providing powerful tools needed for large, robust applications. A superb inversion of control container, expressive migration system, and tightly integrated unit testing support give you the tools you need to build any application with which you are tasked.

Advantages of Laravel
Laravel offers you the following advantages, when you are designing a web application based on it −
1)The web application becomes more scalable, owing to the Laravel  framework.
2) Considerable time is saved in designing the web application, since Laravel reuses the components from other framework in developing web application.
3) It includes namespaces and interfaces, thus helps to organize and manage resources.