Laravel Patterns

# Laravel Development Patterns

Production-grade Laravel architecture patterns for scalable, maintainable applications.

## When to Use

- Building Laravel web applications or APIs
- Structuring controllers, services, and domain logic
- Working with Eloquent models and relationships
- Designing APIs with resources and pagination
- Adding queues, events, caching, and background jobs

## How It Works

- Structure the app around clear boundaries (controllers -> services/actions -> models).
- Use explicit bindings and scoped bindings to keep routing predictable; still enforce authorization for access control.
- Favor typed models, casts, and scopes to keep domain logic consistent.
- Keep IO-heavy work in queues and cache expensive reads.
- Centralize config in `config/*` and keep environments explicit.

## Examples

### Project Structure

Use a conventional Laravel layout with clear layer boundaries (HTTP, services/actions, models).

### Recommended Layout

```
app/
├── Actions/            # Single-purpose use cases
├── Console/
├── Events/
├── Exceptions/
├── Http/
│   ├── Controllers/
│   ├── Middleware/
│   ├── Requests/       # Form request validation
│   └── Resources/      # API resources
├── Jobs/
├── Models/
├── Policies/
├── Providers/
├── Services/           # Coordinating domain services
└── Support/
config/
database/
├── factories/
├── migrations/
└── seeders/
resources/
├── views/
└── lang/
routes/
├── api.php
├── web.php
└── console.php
```