Laravel Design Patterns and Best Practices -- Table of Contents -- Laravel Design Patterns and Best Practices -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Design and Architectural Pattern Fundamentals -- Design patterns -- Elements of design patterns -- Classification of design patterns -- Creational patterns -- Structural patterns -- Behavioral patterns -- What is MVC? -- Summary -- 2. Models in MVC -- What is a Model? -- Purposes of the Model -- Model instances -- The Model in Laravel -- Fluent Query Builder -- Eloquent ORM -- Relationships -- Mass assignment -- Soft deleting -- Eager loading -- Timestamps -- Query scopes -- Accessors and mutators -- Model events -- Model observers -- Migrations -- Database seeders -- Summary -- 3. Views in MVC -- What is a View? -- View objects -- View in Laravel -- Summary -- 4. Controllers in MVC -- What is a Controller? -- The purpose of the Controller -- Controllers in Laravel -- Routes -- Using Controllers inside folders -- Summary -- 5. Design Patterns in Laravel -- The Builder (Manager) pattern -- The need for the Builder (Manager) pattern -- The Factory pattern -- The need for the Factory pattern -- The Repository pattern -- The need for the Repository pattern -- The Strategy pattern -- The need for the Strategy pattern -- The Provider pattern -- The Facade pattern -- Summary -- 6. Best Practices in Laravel -- Basic practices -- Advanced practices -- The Factory pattern -- The Builder pattern -- The Strategy pattern -- The Repository pattern -- Summary.

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