Leaf's DB module takes all the complexity out of data fetching, relationships and saving data in your database.

db()
  ->select('users')
  ->where('name', 'John Doe')
  ->with('transactions')
  ->fetchObj();

For more complicated applications, Leaf MVC comes built-in with Eloquent ORM, a powerful and expressive ORM that allows you to interact with your database using a simple and expressive syntax.

$flight = Flight::where('number', 'FR 900')->first();
$flight->number = 'FR 456';
$flight->save();

DB documentation.

Sign users in or create accounts using Leaf's Auth module:

auth()->login([...]);

Leaf will automatically handle the authentication process, including hashing passwords and storing user + sessions and JWTs. You can also protect your routes with Leaf's middleware.

app()->get('/login', ['middleware' => 'auth.required', function () {
  // this route is only accessible to logged in users
}]);

From account verification to roles and permissions, Leaf Auth gives you a ton of features right out of the box. Check out the authentication documentation.

Leaf abstracts all the annoying little HTTP details and provides a simple API for handling requests, CORS, sessions, cookies and everything in-between.

app()->cors();
app()->csrf(...);
session()->set(...);
cookies()->set(...);
response()->json(...);

You can also quickly validate any request that hits your application

$validatedData = request()->validate([
  'title' => 'string|min:5',
  'body' => 'email',
  'description' => 'optional|string|min:8'
]);

if(!$validatedData) {
  $errors = request()->errors();
}

You also have access to flash messages, downloads, redirects, and more. Check out the HTTP documentation.

Leaf provides all the utilities you need to handle all the tiny repetitive tasks that come with building a web application. Want to send an email? No problem.

mailer()->create([
  'subject' => 'Leaf Mail Test',
  'body' => 'This is a test mail from Leaf Mail using gmail',
  'recipientEmail' => 'example@example.com',
  'recipientName' => 'Example'
]);

Need to integrate with an external API? Fetch has you covered.

$response = fetch('https://example.com/api/something');

Saving an uploaded file?

$uploaded = storage()->upload('fileToUpload', 'path/to/uploads');

Date and time formatting?

tick()->now(); // get the current timestamp
tick()->format('YYYY-MM-DD'); // format the current timestamp
tick()
  ->startOf('month')
  ->add(1, 'day')
  ->set('year', 2018)
  ->format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss');

In addition to these, Leaf also provides HTTP Caching, built-in request parsing and more.

Leaf has support for some of the most popular frontend technologies, from templating engines like Blade and BareUI, to frontend frameworks like React, Vue and Svelte, bundling with Vite and styling with TailwindCSS.

The choice of frontend technology is yours, and Leaf makes it even easier with commands to scaffold your frontend tooling.

leaf view:install --react

Leaf auto-detects your frontend files and bundles them whenever you run the leaf serve command. This means you don't really have to do anything to get your frontend working correctly.

Find out more on the Frontend documentation