# What is Tea?
Teodora (or Tea for short) is a PHP micro-framework mostly used for API development.
It feels and looks very similar to the Laravel framework (~97% similarity).
Tea should be the first starting point when you decide to pick up a PHP framework (to learn), especially Laravel.
Tea is not a framework to use for production. The goal is to build Tea from scratch.
By buying the course Create Tea a PHP framework from scratch, you learn the following:
- How to create a composer project
- How to build a large PHP framework
- Routing
- Controllers
- Middlewares
- ORM
- API resources
- Views
- JWT
- JWT authentication
- Migrations
- Validation
- Observers
- Commands
- and more
- Improve OOP skills
- and more
Creating a framework similar to Laravel from scratch, will help you a lot later when working with Laravel or a different PHP framework.