/laravel-best-practices

Laravel 13 Best Practices

Comprehensive best practices for Laravel 13 applications.

Overview

This skill provides guidance for:

• Application architecture and structure
• Eloquent ORM and database patterns
• Controller and routing conventions
• Validation and form requests
• Security best practices
• Performance optimization
• API design patterns

Categories

1. Architecture & Structure (Critical)

Service classes, actions, repositories, and folder organization.

2. Eloquent & Database (Critical)

Eager loading, query scopes, migrations, and indexing.

3. Controllers & Routing (High)

Resource controllers, route model binding, and API resources.

4. Validation & Requests (High)

Form request classes, custom rules, and authorization.

5. Security (High)

Mass assignment, SQL injection, XSS, and authentication.

6. Performance (Medium)

Caching, queues, and database optimization.

7. API Design (Medium)

Versioning, resources, pagination, and error handling.

8. Testing (Low-Medium)

Feature tests, unit tests, factories, and mocking.

Quick Start

// Form Request
class StorePostRequest extends FormRequest
{
    public function authorize(): bool
    {
        return $this->user()->can('create', Post::class);
    }

    public function rules(): array
    {
        return [
            'title' => ['required', 'string', 'max:255'],
            'body' => ['required', 'string'],
        ];
    }
}

// Controller
class PostController extends Controller
{
    public function store(StorePostRequest $request): RedirectResponse
    {
        $post = Post::create($request->validated());

        return redirect()->route('posts.show', $post);
    }
}

Usage

This skill triggers automatically when:

• Creating Laravel controllers and models
• Writing migrations and queries
• Implementing validation
• Building APIs

References

• Laravel Documentation
• Laravel Best Practices