What is the IoC Container in Laravel?

So you’re learning Laravel you say? Well what is this IoC Container you speak of?! For a lot of us PHP programmers, we may not be familiar with this concept, but thanks to Laravel, proper software engineering is being brought into the PHP world. By getting a handle on what and how the IoC Container works in Laravel, we’ll have a better understanding of how Laravel provides the magic that it does when coding. Let’s take a closer look!