Laravel gives us a solid foundation: routing, validation, Eloquent ORM, queues, and a strong ecosystem. For agency work, that means we spend less time on boilerplate and more on business logic.
Laravel Sanctum makes SPA and mobile auth straightforward. When we need to ship an API plus an admin dashboard, Laravel lets us do both in one codebase with clear separation.
We still pick Node or Go when the problem fits better, but for most CRUD-heavy products, Laravel is our default.