Laravel is a web application development and rapid prototyping tool that uses PHP to create applications while supporting most of the popular tools for database management and front end scripting. The tool’s website states “Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation – freeing you to create without sweating the small things.” Laravel also has a large community of volunteers that help someone start out with learning the basics all the way up to experts that need problem-solving. It’s a great tool for beginners to learn about programming.