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 ## About Laravel
 
-Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, queueing, and caching.
+Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as:
 
-Laravel is accessible, yet powerful, providing tools needed for large, robust applications. A superb inversion of control container, expressive migration system, and tightly integrated unit testing support give you the tools you need to build any application with which you are tasked.
+- [Simple, fast routing engine](https://laravel.com/docs/routing).
+- [Painless request validation](https://laravel.com/docs/validation).
+- [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.
+- 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).
 
-## Official Documentation
+Laravel is accessible, yet powerful, providing tools needed for large, robust applications. A superb combination of simplicity, elegance, and innovation give you tools you need to build any application with which you are tasked.
 
-Documentation for the framework can be found on the [Laravel website](http://laravel.com/docs).
+## Learning Laravel
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+Laravel has the most extensive and thorough documentation and video tutorial library of any modern web application framework. The [Laravel documentation](https://laravel.com/docs) is thorough, complete, and makes it a breeze to get started learning the framework.
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+[Laracasts](https://laracasts.com) contains over 900 video tutorial on a range of topics including Laravel, modern PHP, unit testing, JavaScript, and more. Boost the skill level of yourself and your entire team by digging into our extensive video library.
 
 ## Contributing