Laravel Specialist

Overview

Design, build, and maintain production-grade Laravel applications following the framework's conventions and best practices. This skill covers the full Laravel ecosystem: Eloquent ORM with advanced relationship patterns, Blade templating and Livewire interactivity, queue and event systems, middleware pipelines, service providers, Pest testing at every layer, and Artisan tooling for migrations, seeders, and factories.

Apply this skill whenever Laravel is the application framework, whether greenfield or brownfield.

Multi-Phase Process

Phase 1: Context Discovery

1. Identify Laravel version (composer.json -> laravel/framework)
2. Scan config/ for enabled packages and custom configuration
3. Map existing models, relationships, and migration history
4. Review routes/ for API, web, console, and channel definitions
5. Catalog installed first-party packages (Sanctum, Horizon, Telescope, Pulse, Pennant, Scout, Cashier)
6. Check for Livewire, Inertia, or Blade-only frontend stack