Laravel 13 Eloquent: Expert Level – Course Curriculum by Laravel Daily

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Laravel Daily published the curriculum for an advanced training course on the Eloquent ORM in Laravel 13. It spans model configuration, querying techniques, performance tuning, advanced relations, and supplementary packages.

Key points

  1. Model settings: Covers lesser-known make:model options, custom stubs, mass-assignment ($fillable vs. $guarded), and casts().
  2. Record management and querying: Explores firstOrCreate, change checks (isDirty), observers, pruning, local/global scopes, and the when() method.
  3. Performance and N+1 prevention: Focuses on eager loading ($with, load()), detecting and resolving N+1 queries, and comparing Eloquent against joins and raw SQL.
  4. Advanced relationships: Details polymorphic relations, belongs-to-many pivot table handling, has-many-through, and withCount.
  5. Ecosystem and tooling: Reviews packages for searching and relationships and includes a bonus AI skill called 'laraveldaily-eloquent-audit'.

Why it matters

While Eloquent accelerates development, naive usage frequently causes severe performance bottlenecks, such as excessive database queries. Mastering advanced optimization and relational mechanics is essential for maintaining scalable Laravel applications.

Analysis

The course is organised into concise, focused video and text lessons typically running under five minutes. Alongside standard optimization topics like subqueries and eager loading, it features an AI-assisted audit skill for reviewing Eloquent usage.

Summary generated by AI (Gemini 3.8 Flash, 27 September 2026). It may contain errors – the original source is authoritative.

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