Laravel or Drupal 8? What Are the Key Differences? Which One Best Fits Your Use Case Scenario?

What does Drupal 8 do that Laravel does not? What key functionalities, that Drupal ships with, do you need to build from scratch in Laravel? And how would opting for Laravel benefit your specific type of project? In short: Laravel or Drupal 8?

Now, keep your list of project requirements and constraints at hand to evaluate these 2 technologies’ pros and cons against it:

If a robust user and content management system is critical for your project, then Drupal 8 makes the smartest choice. It’s that “thing” that Drupal excels at that, which would take you a whole lot more time to do in Laravel.

And it’s not just its robustness that might “lure you in”, but the level of convenience that it provides: a lot of the essential features and functionalities that you might need are already built-in.

Moreover, you can easily manage them and custom-tune them via your admin interface…

By comparison, you’d need to build these functionalities, from the ground up, if you chose to go with Laravel.

If:

… then Laravel is what you need.

Now, I’m sure that you already anticipate my answer:

On your own hierarchy of priorities in terms of features and functionalities.

And depending on these key aspects, that should be clearly defined, one technology will benefit you over the other.

So… what type of project are you looking to build?

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