7 Laravel Best Practices For Web Development

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With the rapid traction in technology, it is no surprise that various development platforms are cropping up in demand in upcoming times. Therefore, developers citizen, and non-citizen look for various methodologies to flourish their designing skills and adapt to state-of-the-art approaches to come up with new frameworks. Laravel is one such eminent PHP framework that is adapted for web development needs. Since web development is clutter in the process integrating various modules and components becomes chaos. This is where Laravel steps in, it not only provides a clean working environment but also leverages the benefit of its framework for neat working. With Laravel, you can create large to small components without fretting over every minute detail.

This blog has been specifically designed to throw a spotlight on seven best practices of Laravel to make the development process as seamless as possible.

  • Using the Latest Version: With the latest version of Laravel, the streams are opened for both scalability and reliability. It provides a secure environment that is highly functional and works seamlessly. The latest Laravel version is version 8, which came into the market on September 8, 2020, with new features like Laravel Jetstream, model factory classes, migration squashing, and more amendments that expand the usability of the process. The Latest version minimizes the loopholes and opens up a broad spectrum of possibilities for efficient working.
  • Apt Coding Standards: Laravel development adheres to internal coding modules where variables should be compatible with the composer as Laravel doesn’t have any restriction in the process. This would become all the better with psr-2 and psr-4 coding standards. Laravel follows the coding style of PHPDoc and StyleCI which allow focusing on the content of the contribution and not only on coding style. With the Laravel coding ecosystem, it is most impactful to revolutionize the way websites and applications are built.
  • Artisan CLI: It is the command-line interface that is integrated into Laravel as a pool of assisting commands while developing the apps and is driven by Symfony Console component. It is also possible to execute an Artisan command out of CLI e.g. to fire an Artisan command from an HTTP route using the following Artisan facade:

Route::get(‘/foo’, function()

{

    $exitCode = Artisan::call(‘command:name’, [‘–option’ => ‘foo’]);

    //

});

There are multiple other methodologies where an Artisan command can be used. Along with these functionalities, the Laravel command scheduler also allows to smoothly and meaningfully define the command schedule within Laravel itself, and only a single Cron entry is needed on the server. Web development is far easier on this framework.

  • Clean Database: The Laravel database should be clean to thrive into a smooth, performing, and efficient system. With Laravel it is easy to eliminate or delete cache files without harming the rhythm of current session files. It allows to modify the database schema and stay up to date on the current schema state. If the website is taking regular backups then the content of the database is stored hence, in case any information is no longer needed it should be cleared up to free space and remove the clutter while working.
  • Use of CDN (Content Delivery Network): CDN is spread across many nodes geographically where each of the nodes caches the static content available on the website with components like CSS, JS files, and varying images. It is essential to understand the entire process of implementing CDN into Laravel with the help of the CDN Assets Manager Package.
  • SSL and HTTPS: Security certificate makes the information encrypted all over the channel other than the receiver and is of high demand and usage while working on Laravel projects. The developers keep the information locked over internet and give it accessibility to only the intended receiver. It provides a robust and secure channel for client-server connectivity for the security layers of the websites.
  • The Eloquent ORM: Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) is one of the best features while designing a Laravel website used to extract and show the data to the users with a single query. Apart from retrieving records from the database table, Eloquent models allow in inserting, updating, and deleting records from the table as well. It also helps in tracking the naming convention of the model and also optimizing the queries part. This provides a beautiful, simple ActiveRecord implementation for working with the database. 

These were the seven checklists from our end that should be taken into consideration while working with Laravel. If you have any suggestions leave them in the comment box. We will be back with an informative blog soon. For a walkthrough of our Laravel services drop an email at contact@usualsmart.com.

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