Laravel Repositories

Question

What are the advantages of Repositories in Laravel? It seems to be abstracting the Model layer from the business logic of the application. Although it really just seems to m

Answer 1

In addition to the other answers here, it's worth pointing out that repositories used when used in Laravel can add an extra level of expressiveness. Take for example the following:

$users = User::whereHas("role", function($q) {
    $q->where('name', 'moderator');
}, '<', 1)->get();

The code is difficult to read and awkward to look at. It can be encapsulated in a repository method, and demonstrate much clearer code intent:

$users = $userRepository->getUsersWhoAreNotModerators();

This is also achievable using eloquent 'query scopes' but I think using a repository is superior, as is adheres much better to the single responsibility principal, and is doable regardless of whether you are using Eloquent.