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How many hours spent on battling Laravel to do what you want? How many hours spent on upgrading Laravel versions?

Framework solves a general problem, but we try to solve a specific problem, thus it will always be a mismatch, frameworks usually solves that with a combination of magic and opaque abstraction layers.

Frameworks works best for short running projects, long running projects tend to outgrow the framework.

Prefer libraries over frameworks.

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That works for some things better then others. For example user management is hard to do as a library, because now you need to hook up all those actions / pass the data to them manually. Then make sure you handle all the headers correctly. Then handle the sessions/invalidation yourself. Potentially implement your custom authz as well because that's also happening throughout your app. There's still a lot of glue code that would be involved here - it may be worth trading it for the occasional Laravel upgrade.

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