Laravel tips

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Short, practical Laravel tips: Eloquent performance, queues, testing helpers, and framework features most codebases underuse. Each tip is a copy-pasteable snippet with the why behind it.

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Attach request-scoped metadata with the Context facade so it flows into logs and jobs

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The Context facade (Laravel 11+) stores key/value data for the current request that's automatically added to every log…

observabilitylogging

@hnooz

Turn N+1 queries into errors in development with preventLazyLoading()

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Called in a service provider, this throws a LazyLoadingViolationException whenever a relation is accessed without being…

eloquentperformance

@hnooz

Lock down outbound HTTP in tests with preventStrayRequests()

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Http::fake() alone lets un-matched requests fall through to the real network, which makes tests flaky and slow and can…

testinghttp-client

@hnooz

Auto-delete stale records with the Prunable trait instead of a custom command

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Add Prunable and a prunable() query, and model:prune (scheduled) deletes matching rows in chunks — no bespoke cleanup c…

eloquentmaintenance

@hnooz

Use whenLoaded() in API resources to avoid firing queries during serialization

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Referencing $this->posts directly in a resource lazy-loads the relation for every model when it wasn't eager-loaded — a…

eloquentapi-resources

@hnooz