Craft 6 and Laravel: What You Need To Know (opens in new tab)

Last year at Dot All 2025, Pixel & Tonic announced Craft 6 will be shifting to Laravel, replacing the current Yii 2 PHP framework. Craft CMS has used the Yii framework since Craft 3 (a migration that was less-than painful at the time), so it is understandable that reactions were mixed when this news broke. But this time is different, in a couple of meaningful ways. Why Laravel? # Why not stay with Yii 2? It's not a bad framework by any means. The reason is bigger than just preference. Laravel...