laravel-specialist

To implement a Laravel API, you define Eloquent models with relationships and optimized queries, then expose them through RESTful endpoints using controllers and API resources. This approach ensures strict PHP 8.2+ typing, PSR-12 compliance, and validation-first request handling for robust JSON responses.

The best way to handle long-running Laravel tasks is dispatching them as queued jobs. This Skill implements deterministic queued jobs backed by Horizon workers, ensuring clear failure handling and keeping your application responsive while processing expensive work asynchronously.

To avoid N+1 query problems in Laravel, you must apply proper eager loading when defining Eloquent relationships. This Skill enforces safe query practices by structuring models, scopes, and casts with optimized queries to prevent performance bottlenecks during data retrieval.

Yes, this approach supports building reactive UI components with Livewire. It delivers reactive interfaces by wiring them to your Laravel backend, ensuring features are backed by thorough automated tests using Pest or PHPUnit to validate UI and domain logic integration.

Sanctum-based authentication integrates with Laravel API routing by configuring authentication flows alongside API versioning. This Skill applies service-layer and dependency injection structures to secure RESTful endpoints, ensuring strict PHP 8.2+ typing and comprehensive automated test coverage for the auth flow.

You should target over 85% testing coverage when implementing Laravel features. This Skill ensures correctness by delivering feature and unit tests using Pest or PHPUnit, validating Eloquent models, API resources, queued jobs, and Livewire components comprehensively to reduce bugs and rework.