Laravel 8.x – Coding Guidelines & Best Practices

Source of truth: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x

For deep-dives on specific topics, read the relevant reference file in references/:

• references/eloquent.md — Eloquent ORM, relationships, scopes, accessors/mutators
• references/testing.md — Feature/unit tests, factories, HTTP tests
• references/security.md — Auth, authorization, CSRF, SQL injection
• references/queues-jobs.md — Queues, job batching (new in 8.x), events

1. Project Structure

Laravel 8.x introduced the app/Models/ directory as the default home for Eloquent models.