## About Laravel Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable and creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel takes the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in many web projects, such as: - [Simple, fast routing engine](https://laravel.com/docs/routing). - [Powerful dependency injection container](https://laravel.com/docs/container). - Multiple back-ends for [session](https://laravel.com/docs/session) and [cache](https://laravel.com/docs/cache) storage. - Expressive, intuitive [database ORM](https://laravel.com/docs/eloquent). - Database agnostic [schema migrations](https://laravel.com/docs/migrations). - [Robust background job processing](https://laravel.com/docs/queues). - [Real-time event broadcasting](https://laravel.com/docs/broadcasting). Laravel is accessible, powerful, and provides tools required for large, robust applications. ## Learning Laravel Laravel has the most extensive and thorough [documentation](https://laravel.com/docs) and video tutorial library of all modern web application frameworks, making it a breeze to get started with the framework. In addition, [Laracasts](https://laracasts.com) contains thousands of video tutorials on a range of topics including Laravel, modern PHP, unit testing, and JavaScript. Boost your skills by digging into our comprehensive video library. You can also watch bite-sized lessons with real-world projects on [Laravel Learn](https://laravel.com/learn), where you will be guided through building a Laravel application from scratch while learning PHP fundamentals. ## Project Setup (Dev) Steps to get the app running locally after pulling latest changes. This project runs on **PHP 8.5**, and the system's default `composer` binary resolves to an incompatible PHP version — always invoke Composer as `php8.5 /usr/bin/composer` (not plain `composer`). **No Node/npm, ever.** Styling is [Bootstrap](https://getbootstrap.com/) loaded via CDN ``/`