Simple & fast routing engine: All Laravel routes are defined in your route files, which are located in the routes directory. These files are automatically loaded by the framework. Powerful dependency injection container: The Laravel service container is a powerful tool for managing class dependencies and performing dependency injection. Multiple back-ends for session and cache storage: Laravel ships with a variety of session backends that are accessed through an expressive, unified API which is also used for various caching backends. Expressive & intuitive database ORM: The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides a beautiful, simple ActiveRecord implementation for working with your database. Database agnostic schema migrations: Migrations are typically paired with Laravel's schema builder to easily build your application's database schema. Robust background job processing: Laravel queues provide a unified API across a variety of different queue backends that allow you to defer the processing of a time consuming task, drastically speeding up web requests to your application. Real-time event broadcasting: Laravel makes it easy to "broadcast" your events over a WebSocket connection. Broadcasting your Laravel events allows you to share the same event names between your server-side code and your client-side JavaScript application.

* HTTP Router: Slim provides a fast and powerful router that maps route callbacks to specific HTTP request methods and URIs. It supports parameters and pattern matching. * Middleware: Build your application with concentric middleware to tweak the HTTP request and response objects around your Slim app. * PSR-7 Support: Slim supports any PSR-7 HTTP message implementation so you may inspect and manipulate HTTP message method, status, URI, headers, cookies, and body. * Dependency Injection: Slim supports dependency injection so you have complete control of your external tools. Use any Container-Interop container.