Popular tricks

Further explanation: http://www.codinghobo.com/re-organising-laravel-applications-with-psr-4/

If you have an API, which you also use on your site..then you might want to get the data from the API by making an internal request.

A variation of http://www.laravel-tricks.com/tricks/column-selection-in-eager-loading Credits: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16994253/laravel-eager-loading-load-only-specific-columns Warning: this trick does not work on many-to-many relations, see: https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/2966

Extends the native Laravel Http Client, so that you can define global options https://github.com/smokills/laravel-http-client-default-options

Monitor user activity on laravel application with Laravel user activity package. It has build-in beautiful responsive & user-friendly UI with various useful features.

Temporarily log in as another user, but switch back to the original user at any time. Inspired by the User Switching plugin for WordPress. I use this for testing data being shown based on user role.

Forget cache upon model events or custom events

if you want to use ORM eloquent to get a query with the third table and select only particular attributes then here is the trick. Here users can have multiple positions in a company and each user has their own user profile. *note that user_id must be here to fetch data with a specific column. without foreign key eloquent cannot map relational table

Perform CSRF filter on all post, put, patch, and delete requests through constructor of the BaseController.