Artisan is the command line interface included with Laravel. Laravel has its own Command Line interface called Artisan.
The default Laravel application structure is intended to provide a great starting point for both large and small applications.
Before creating your first Laravel project, make sure that your local machine has PHP and Composer installed.
Laravel is an open-source PHP framework, which is robust and easy to understand. It follows a model-view-controller design pattern. Laravel reuses the existing components of different frameworks which helps in creating a web application. The web application thus designed is more structured and pragmatic.