Building a Laravel application involves much more than writing PHP code. A production application needs to solve a real business problem, handle users and data reliably, survive deployments, remain secure, and continue to be maintainable as requirements change.
Laravel provides an excellent foundation for building modern web applications, but the framework is only one part of the development process.
A successful Laravel project typically moves through several stages, from understanding the original business idea to deploying, monitoring, and improving the application in production.
Here is what that process looks like.
1. Start With the Business Problem
