Codeigniter or Laravel?

On CodeIgniter I think most developers (certainly this article, maybe you too?) are familiar with versions 2 & 3 which (to be fair) have long outlasted their codebase. Version 4 is under very active development and leverages all the relevancy of a modern framework. You pick CodeIgniter for it’s philosophy: “very small footprint, built for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit”. You pick Laravel if you want the automagic assist and the most cross-business applicability.