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Clean Code in Laravel

A Practical Guide to Laravel Best Practices

v3.0 | Published Oct 2025 | Updated Mar 2026
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Laravel makes it easy to get started, but shipping maintainable code at scale is a different challenge. This book bridges that gap - covering the patterns, architecture, and practices that separate quick prototypes from production-grade applications.

Chapters

  1. Preface
  2. About the Author
  3. Contributing

Part 1: Think Clean

  1. 01 The Philosophy of Simplicity
  2. 02 Naming Conventions
  3. 03 Code Quality and Automation
  4. 04 Dependency Injection

Part 2: Write Clean

  1. 05 Controllers
  2. 06 Actions
  3. 07 Data Transfer Objects
  4. 08 Organizing Your Application
  5. 09 Form Requests and Validation
  6. 10 View Models
  7. 11 Jobs
  8. 12 Pipelines
  9. 13 APIs
  10. 14 Webhooks
  11. 15 Rate Limiting
  12. 16 Authorization

Part 3: Model Clean

  1. 17 Eloquent Models Done Right
  2. 18 Custom Query Builders and Collections
  3. 19 Enums, Value Objects, and Type Safety
  4. 20 The State Pattern
  5. 21 Database Best Practices

Part 4: Ship Clean

  1. 22 The Art of Testing
  2. 23 Queue Workers
  3. 24 Packages
  4. 25 Deployments
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