Laravel

Best Practices

• Avoiding N+1

  The N+1 query problem is one of the most common performance pitfalls in Laravel applications. It hap...

• Cache Invalidation Strategies

  "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.&qu...

• Caching

  Caching sits between your application and its slowest operations — database queries, external API ca...

• Contextual Attributes

  Laravel 11 introduced contextual attributes, a cleaner way to tell the service container which concr...

• Custom Collections

  Laravel's Collection class is already powerful, but there are times when your domain logic benefits...

• Eloquent Builder vs Scopes

  Laravel gives you several ways to organise reusable query logic. Choosing between a custom Eloquent...

• Form Request Validation Patterns

  Form Request classes are Laravel's dedicated mechanism for validation and authorisation. Moving vali...

• Health Checks
• Immutable Dates

  Date handling is a frequent source of bugs. Laravel defaults to using Carbon, which is mutable — cal...

• Logging

  Laravel wraps the popular Monolog library behind a clean, unified interface. You get multiple log ch...

• Mass Assignment Guarding
• Monitoring & Alerting

  A Laravel application in production needs more than just error logs. You need visibility into whethe...

• Performance Improvements

  Small changes to how you query data, cache results, and load relationships can make a significant di...

• Prune Data

  Add prunable trait to Laravel model, set the prunable method to select the prunable dates.

• Queue

  Queues let you defer time-consuming tasks — sending emails, processing uploads, generating reports —...

• Rate Limiting

  Rate limiting protects your application from abuse — whether that is brute-force login attempts, API...

• Read/Write DB Splitting

  Read/write splitting offloads SELECT queries onto one or more read replicas while directing INSERT,...

• Route Organisation & Naming

  Well-organised routes are easier to maintain, easier to debug, and produce URLs that are easy to rea...

• Scheduled Tasks
• Secrets & Config Validation
• Security Headers
• Using Env

  The .env file is the standard place to store environment-specific configuration in Laravel. It keeps...

• Working with Large Datasets

  Loading an entire table into memory works fine for small datasets. It does not work when your table...

• Laravel Coding Standards

  This document focuses specifically on Laravel framework conventions and best practices. It assumes y...

• Laravel Pint: Opinionated PHP Code Style Fixer

  Laravel Pint is an opinionated PHP code style fixer built on top of PHP-CS-Fixer. It provides zero-c...