You know, I love Eloquent so much! It provides very elegant way to link you database to models. And it does a lot of things for you too, for example:

• guessing table name by class name;
• guessing which field should be used for foreign keys.

Have you ever wondered, how much overhead do these things create? I did. And I figured it out with table name case (I guess should be similar with foreign key column guessing. Take a look at my experiment!

TL;DR: It is worth.

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Laravel provides excellent authentication mechanism. Have you ever wondered how it works? Documentation states, that it is very flexible, but does not show flexibility of it.

I will show you some features, that I personally love, and how I managed to find those, so you can start your own journey. Lets begin!

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