3 Essential Laravel Architecture Best Practices for 2024

Structuring Your Laravel Application

How should you structure your Laravel project to meet your specific needs? Thankfully, Laravel simplifies this process with its predefined framework. The general rule of thumb is to stick with Laravel’s default architecture unless you have compelling and objective reasons to deviate.

Despite this simplicity, developers often overthink project architecture. This tendency to stray from the standard structure frequently indicates a deeper issue: an inability to maintain order. Whether you follow Laravel’s defaults or overhaul the structure entirely, without good organizational habits, your project is likely to become chaotic.

To address this, we’ll focus on best practices that suit most enterprise-level projects. But first, let’s define what we mean by an “enterprise project.”

In this context, an enterprise project is a public-facing application with a large user base, generating revenue and requiring constant updates to keep up with technological advancements, evolving business needs, and market trends.

Such projects demand the following from their development teams:

• Seamless collaboration.
• Compatibility with third-party solutions to keep…