How is Codeigniter lighter than Laravel?

Question

Laravel

I worked quite a bit with this and that, but everyone says that it's better to start with codeigniter in order to better learn the basics, so to speak. Why is that? How is it easier? Examples if possible

Answer 1

Mr. Escobar will not say anything bad (18+)
CI is a dead framework, take it as the original one.

How is it easier?

It is easiest to understand what there is nothing to disassemble. This is a very short dead framework.
Laravel is a big blob of anti-practices. You will pay for "simplicity" with a lack of understanding of how it works and difficulty in finding errors.
Check out Silex when you see enough - Symfony. I also recommend reading: They asked to check the code, what should I look at?

Answer 2

Codeigniter is a feature-poor framework, so it has very simple documentation.
Its only problem is the lack of a dependency container. The absence of everything else would be solved through this container.

Answer 3

Try Codeigniter 4. The framework is actually written from scratch. Supports namespaces. Has its own autoloader. Minimum PHP Version 7.2