Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions

laravel is nice but it's a fucking pain to set up before you get a feel for it. Lots of dependencies and using composer/homestead isn't always so easy.

The hardest part is setting up the environment. I spent the better part of a day getting it to load correctly the first time.
I don't care what anyone says, it's finicky and I'm not a moron.
Once you get it down it's really nice, you just need to stick it out.

If you are making run of the mill sites stick with a common CMS, i.e. Wordpress.

If you need to go completely custom and build something unique I would use laravel.