Laravel Guide

Applies to: Laravel 11+, PHP 8.2+, Full-Stack Web Applications, APIs, SaaS

Core Principles

1. Convention Over Configuration: Follow Laravel's conventions for file placement, naming, and structure
2. Service Layer: Keep controllers thin, extract business logic into service classes
3. Form Requests: Validate all input through dedicated Form Request classes
4. Eloquent Relationships: Use eager loading to prevent N+1 queries
5. Queue Everything Slow: Offload email, notifications, and heavy processing to queues

Guardrails

Version & Dependencies