Why use SQLite with Laravel

At first, it wasn’t immediately obvious why to use SQLite, over MySQL, with Laravel but a couple good cases have come up.

1. For AnimaticBuilder, since a robust user database setup isn’t needed just yet, SQLite works great since it’s fast, portable, and easily versioned. Even later, when a user database is needed, individual SQLite databases could be used for sequences.
2. On Laracasts, folks have pointed out how to use the SQLite as the database for test cases, https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/testing/how-to-specify-a-testing-database-in-laravel-5. Here too, the database can continue to be used as a test bed through the development of an app. (Just make sure nothing secure gets saved there.)