Laravel Eloquent Recipes

39 Tips and Tricks to Mastering Laravel's Eloquent ORM

Eloquent is the most important part of our favorite framework. As a Laravel developer, you need to know it very well.

This short PDF contains 39 top-performing Eloquent-related tips. They earned 100000s impressions and 1000s likes on Twitter.

Delivered to you in 4 categories.

Basic Eloquent Recipes

• How to use the new Attribute cast in Laravel 8
• How to avoid if-else statements with the when helper
• Or how to hide sensitive information with invisible columns

Relationship Recipes

• How to avoid null checking with the withDefault
• How you can write high-level code using the whereRelation or whereBelongsTo
• How you can write custom relationship logic using the ofMany

Factory and Migration Recipes

• How to write migrations that almost read like an English sentence
• How you can save code with Factory States

Other Eloquent Related Recipes

• How to log every database query with 5 lines of code.
• How to avoid N+1 queries

These Eloquent tips will help you write cleaner, more efficient code.