In Laravel, adhering to naming conventions and best practices is essential for maintaining a clean, consistent, and readable codebase. These guidelines ensure that your code is easily understandable by other developers and aligns with community standards. This document covers general naming conventions, detailed conventions for various Laravel elements, and additional best practices to optimize your Laravel application.
Following naming conventions enhances code readability and maintainability. Below are some common naming conventions used in Laravel:
Studly Case: Class names should be in StudlyCase, also known as PascalCase, where each word in the class name starts with a capital letter and there are no separators between words. For example: UserController
, PostController
.