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A superb inversion of control container, expressive migration system, and tightly integrated unit testing support give you the tools you need to build any application with which you are tasked.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"History\" class=\"mw-headline\">History<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laravel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Otwell<\/a> created Laravel as an attempt to provide a more advanced alternative to the CodeIgniter framework, which did not provide certain features such as built-in support for user authentication and authorization. Laravel&#8217;s first beta release was made available on June 9, 2011, followed by the Laravel 1 release later in the same month. Laravel 1 included built-in support for authentication, localization, models, views, sessions, routing and other mechanisms, but lacked support for controllers that prevented it from being a true MVC framework.<sup id=\"cite_ref-maxoffsky_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Laravel\u00a02 was released in September 2011, bringing various improvements from the author and community. Major new features included the support for controllers, which made Laravel\u00a02 a fully MVC-compliant framework, built-in support for the\u00a0inversion of control\u00a0(IoC) principle, and a\u00a0templating system\u00a0called\u00a0<i>Blade<\/i>. 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