You get top notch security as well as great support always. The features are great, you get user libraries inbult, you want to run ecommerce store, just install library and you are done. The imeplementation is seamless.

The simplicity and the organic way it is organized. Writing code with Laravel is like writing poetry.

- Lightweight - no batteries, but easily customizable with plugins - easy to use and setup - scaffolding projects available to setup a new project easily - vast and strong community support - easy to grok and understand if coming from Python or Ruby etc. It's a framework I code in daily, have been for the last 5 years. Can be integrated very easily with a lot of other npm libs and external APIs etc. I mean it's basically code interacting with other code via APIs so that's not a big deal.