What are the sharp reasons to switch from Codeigniter to Laravel?

Question

Laravel

I am engaged in the creation of small websites and online stores. I do everything on Codeigniter. Not so long ago, the 3rd version was released, which indicates that Codiigniter is still alive. But the popularity of Laravel is growing by leaps and bounds. And sooner or later, many programmers from the community will switch to Laravel or another framework. In principle, for my tasks, Codeigniter is quite satisfactory. As I said above, I do not do complex projects.
Please tell me a weighty argument to cost me or not to switch to Laravel

Answer 1

still alive

let him die in peace
Actually the most weighty argument you have already named, the community. In CI it is weak, in laravel it will be stronger and will only grow. It is also important that under Laravel it is now corny easier to find smart developers.
Further, the use of more modern approaches that simplify development and reduce the likelihood of errors. It has good code cohesion management, good testing... Well, yes, it is based on symfony components, which are famous for their stability. Well, one more thing, recently Laravel has had LTS releases, which gives hope that the framework will stop breaking backward compatibility anywhere and everywhere, and the likelihood that the version of the framework you use will not be forgotten also increases.
ps The igniter code outlived its usefulness 4 years ago.

Answer 2

In Laravel, everything is very simple than in CodeIgniter (I have not tried the 3rd version) or Yii. Even Yii with its CRUD generator is not as easy and simple as just writing in Laravel. Because you almost always have to adapt what Yii generated to your needs, and in Laravel I just write what I need and this process is faster than in Yii.
All this I wrote about myself.

Answer 3

I tried Lara but ended up switching to Ci. Easier, less show off. Faster is the main reason. My Lara loaded slower than Drupal, this is subjective of course.

Answer 4

I migrated from CodeIgniter to another framework, because the tools that it provided were not enough. ActiveRecord there was an ordinary database query builder, and not an implementation of ORM technology. There were no migrations, no testing tools, no debugger, no assets, no RBAC. Yes, there was almost nothing, except for the implementation of the MVC pattern. And it was also kind of cool to write the data validation code right in the controller, because of which they turned out to be thick.
I looked at Laravel a bit, but I didn't like how the framework api is documented there. There was no description of the arguments that the methods take, it is not clear what then is the point in general in such an api.
I myself went to Yii.

Answer 5

- Very handy templating engine
- Beautiful code
- Fast code
- Very handy DebugBar
- Large community
- The most popular Framework 2015
- Based on Symfony
- A lot of necessary little things!