Very few Laravel applications don’t have a data store backing them, and the vast majority are backed by a relational database like MySQL. Laravel’s built-in tooling for interacting with databases, Eloquent and the Query Builder, are powerful, flexible, easy-to-use tools that will get you moving quickly but stay flexible as your app grows.

Jonathan Reinink is the author of Eloquent Performance Patterns (https://eloquent-course.reinink.ca/) and a prolific teacher about Laravel and databases.

• Jonathan Reinink (https://reinink.ca/)
• Inertia JS (https://inertiajs.com/)
• What is an ORM? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping)
• Active record pattern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_record_pattern)
• Eloquent (https://laravel.com/docs/eloquent)
• Query Builder (https://laravel.com/docs/queries)
• Query Scopes (https://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#query-scopes)
• Jonathan’s blog (https://reinink.ca/articles)
• Jonathan’s talk at Laracon US in NY: “Eloquent Performance Patterns” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBUXXErAtuk)

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Editing sponsored by Tighten; transcript sponsored by Larajobs.