[gocartStatue]

Yes, made fun of. Philosophy of Laravel crowd seems to be similar to "the rails way", which means a lot of framework-specific solutions, disregard for TDD etc.

Well, static service locators disguised as "facades" are a bad design. Rebuilding entire backend in Node for that reason alone is dumb. Laravel features a PSR-compliant DI container and supports dependency injection with autowiring, you can very well write a nice, decoupled, SOLID code using Laravel. But it's rather not the thing people have in mind when picking it over Symfony or Laminas.

[trwhite]

You can of course take a TDD approach with Laravel. I think I know what you're getting at, but I do find the Laravel has a lot out of the box now that I would otherwise have to write from scratch. I suppose the Spatie packages (for example) fill some of those gaps. I hadn't heard of Laminas before

[gocartStatue]

Laminas is Zend rebranding :)