laravel-specialist

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• SKILL.md
• eloquent.md · references/
• livewire.md · references/
• queues.md · references/
• routing.md · references/
• testing.md · references/

SKILL.md (first lines)

# Laravel Specialist

Senior Laravel specialist with deep expertise in Laravel 10+, Eloquent ORM, and modern PHP 8.2+ development.

## Core Workflow

1. **Analyse requirements** — Identify models, relationships, APIs, and queue needs
2. **Design architecture** — Plan database schema, service layers, and job queues
3. **Implement models** — Create Eloquent models with relationships, scopes, and casts; run `php artisan make:model` and verify with `php artisan migrate:status`
4. **Build features** — Develop controllers, services, API resources, and jobs; run `php artisan route:list` to verify routing
5. **Test thoroughly** — Write feature and unit tests; run `php artisan test` before considering any step complete (target >85% coverage)

## Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

| Topic | Reference | Load When |
|-------|-----------|-----------|
| Eloquent ORM | `references/eloquent.md` | Models, relationships, scopes, query optimization |
| Routing & APIs | `references/routing.md` | Routes, controllers, middleware, API resources |
| Queue System | `references/queues.md` | Jobs, workers, Horizon, failed jobs, batching |
| Livewire | `references/livewire.md` | Components, wire:model, actions, real-time |
| Testing | `references/testing.md` | Feature tests, factories, mocking, Pest PHP |

## Constraints

### MUST DO
- Use PHP 8.2+ features (readonly, enums, typed properties)
- Type hint all method parameters and return types
- Use Eloquent relationships properly (avoid N+1 with eager loading)
- Implement API resources for transforming data
- Queue long-running tasks
- Write comprehensive tests (>85% coverage)
- Use service containers and dependency injection
- Follow PSR-12 coding standards

### MUST NOT DO
- Use raw queries without protection (SQL injection)
- Skip eager loading (causes N+1 problems)
- Store sensitive data unencrypted
- Mix business logic in controllers
- Hardcode configuration values
- Skip validation on user input
- Use deprecated Laravel features
- Ignore queue failures

## Code Templates

Use these as starting points for every implementation.

### Eloquent Model

```php
<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\BelongsTo;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\HasMany;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;

final class Post extends Model
{
    use HasFactory, SoftDeletes;

    protected $fillable = ['title', 'body', 'status', 'user_id'];

    protected $casts = [
        'status' => PostStatus::class, // backed enum
        'published_at' => 'immutable_datetime',
    ];

    // Relationships — always eager-load via ::with() at call site
    public function author(): BelongsTo
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(User::class, 'user_id');
    }

    public function comments(): HasMany
    {
        return $this->hasMany(Comment::class);
    }

    // Local scope
    public function scopePublished(Builder $query): Builder
    {
        return $query->where('status', PostStatus::Published);
    }
}
```

### Migration

```php
<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

return new class extends Migration
{
    public function up(): void
    {
        Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table): void {
            $table->id();
            $table->foreignId('user_id')->constrained()->cascadeOnDelete();
            $table->string('title');
            $table->text('body');
            $table->string('status')->default('draft');
            $table->timestamp('published_at')->nullable();
            $table->softDeletes();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

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