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Laravel Repositories: A how-to example
This layer can be between the domain and the database and provides access to data.
What are Repositories?
Repositories are a Design Pattern, that provides access to data. This data could be stored in a database, file system, or external service.
They were introduced as part of the Domain-Driven Design in 2004, and want to provide an abstraction of data the application can use, like an interface to a collection.
Adding, removing, updating, and selecting items from the collection, through methods, without to deal with database or other concerns.
We want to achieve loose coupling, and keep the domain objects persistence ignorant.
His main idea is to create a bridge between models and controllers without having hard dependencies. But also, an useful design pattern on this topic is the service layer.
To know more about to structure the model layer in Laravel check this story on FAT logic to model layer.
