Laravel DTOs

Never pass multiple primitive values. Always wrap data in Data objects.

Related guides:

• dto-transformers.md - Transform external data into DTOs
• test-factories.md - Create hydrated DTOs for tests

Philosophy

DTOs provide:

• Type safety and IDE autocomplete
• Clear contracts between layers
• Test factories for easy test data generation
• Validation integration
• Transformation from requests to domain objects

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