Boost your Laravel development speed and efficiency with these 10 must know hacks. Perfect for Laravel 11, this guide gives you real practical tricks to clean your code and supercharge performance.
1. Use Route Model Binding Efficiently
What it does: Automatically inject models based on route parameters.
No need for:
2. Use Eager Loading to Avoid N+1 Problem
Improves performance by reducing DB queries from 100+ to 2-3.
3. Use Laravel Debugbar for Performance Optimization
Install via Composer:
This gives insights into:
• Route performance
• DB queries
• Loaded views
• Memory usage
4. Use Policy-Based Authorization
Use in controller:
More secure and scalable than gate-based or inline logic.
5. Use Custom Casts for Reusable Data Conversion
Works great with enums, JSON fields and toggles.
6. Use Laravel Macros to Extend Core Classes
Use it like:
7. Task Scheduling with withoutOverlapping()
Prevents jobs from running multiple times concurrently.
8. Clean Controllers Using Form Request Validation
In Controller:
Keeps controllers clean and readable.
9. Use Pipelines for Complex Logic
Cleanly process data through multiple steps.
10. Use when() in Query Builder for Conditional Queries
Avoids bloated if...else logic and keeps queries dynamic.
