laravel-best-practices

31 Laravel 13 conventions and best practices across architecture, Eloquent, controllers, validation, security, and API design. Comprehensive best practices guide for Laravel 13 applications. Contains 31 rules across 7 categories for building scalable, maintainable Laravel applications. Reference these guidelines when: No rule files exist yet for this category. No rule files exist yet for this category. Read individual rule files for detailed explanations and code examples: Each rule file contains: For the complete guide with all rules expanded: AGENTS.md - 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 - Creating controllers, models, and services - Writing migrations and database queries - Implementing validation...