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

The main reason you use repository pattern is to be able to easily change your data source. For example, in my experience the most common change is adding a caching layer, because the repository implements an interface all you need to do is build the new object implementing the same interface with the new methods handling cache and change the binding.