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Design Patterns in Laravel 11

Factory and FactoryContract

Summary of this lesson:
- Factory pattern implementation in Laravel core managers
- Interface contracts in Factory pattern
- Examples through Auth, Mail, and Cache managers
- Creating custom factories in Laravel

Another pattern found extensively in Laravel is the Factory pattern:

use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Factory as FactoryContract;
 
class AuthManager implements FactoryContract
{
// ...
}
use Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Factory as FactoryContract;
 
class MailManager implements FactoryContract
{
// ...
}
use Illuminate\Contracts\Cache\Factory as FactoryContract;
 
class CacheManager implements FactoryContract
{
// ...
}

As you can see, all of these Managers implement the FactoryContract interface (or Factory, as it uses an alias to rename it to FactoryContract).

But what is the Factory pattern?


Factory Pattern

The pattern itself is simple - it is meant for...

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