CodeSource | The Untold Story of Laravel
Then Laravel appeared. It looked like a new beginning for PHP developers, but it quietly introduced something else: centralization.
2025-08-17 08:00:00 - Laravel
In a world where PHP had always been messy and decentralized, Laravel brought beauty and order. But also dependency and control.
00:00 - Laravel enters a fractured PHP world
00:45 - A Problem PHP Couldn’t Fix Itself
02:00 - A Framework for the Individual, Controlled by One
04:14 - The Culture Engine: Laracasts, Laracon and community voices
06:05 - Business & Monetized Dependency: Forge, Vapor, Nova
07:30 - Technical Criticisms and Architectural Tradeoffs
09:00 - Controversies and Community Backlash
10:10 - From Side Project to System
10:50 - Laravel’s empire and open questions