What attracted you to choose Laravel over Symfony when developing a project?

Laravel attracted me with its simplicity and convenience for quickly starting a project. Laravel has built-in tools such as Eloquent ORM, migrations, routing system, and Blade templating engine, which allow for rapid development without deep diving into architecture.

Moreover, Laravel has a large and active community, numerous packages, and good documentation, which makes solving typical tasks easier. For projects with standard business logic and quick market deployment, Laravel often proves to be a more productive choice compared to Symfony, which is more flexible and powerful but requires more time for setup and learning.

An example of using Eloquent to fetch users:

$users = User::where('active', 1)->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->get();