laravel-best-practices

SKILL.md

31 Laravel 13 conventions and best practices across architecture, Eloquent, controllers, validation, security, and API design.

Organized into 7 rule categories by priority, from critical architecture and database patterns to medium-impact performance and API design guidance

Covers essential patterns including service classes, form requests, Eloquent models, migrations, eager loading, and event-driven architecture

Includes 31 specific rules with prefixes (e.g., arch-service-classes, eloquent-eager-loading, validation-form-requests) for easy reference and agent triggering

Features complete code examples for controllers, models, migrations, and common patterns like N+1 query prevention and transaction handling

Targets Laravel 13.x with PHP 8.3+, including Laravel 13-specific features like queue routing and pgvector semantic search

Laravel 13 Best Practices

Comprehensive best practices guide for Laravel 13 applications. Contains 31 rules across 7 categories for building scalable, maintainable Laravel applications.

When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:

Creating controllers, models, and services

Writing migrations and database queries

Implementing validation and form requests

Building APIs with Laravel

Structuring Laravel applications

Rule Categories by Priority