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Laravel is a PHP framework created by Taylor Otwell and released in 2011. Both use the MVC pattern, both have continuous support and a huge community. If you are a beginner this post will help to understand frameworks and how they work. Both are great frameworks and you need to have in mind that there a lot of factors to consider to use one of them, like deploy, performance, hosting costs, etc, etc. But once you learn one the second is a piece of the cake.