Chain conditional clauses to the query without writing if-else statements

The "when" helper in the query builder is cool!

You can chain conditional clauses to the query without writing if-else statements.

Makes your query very clear:

class RatingSorter extends Sorter
{
    function execute(Builder $query)
    {
        $query
            ->selectRaw('AVG(product_ratings.rating) AS avg_rating')
            ->join('product_ratings', 'products.id', '=', 'product_ratings.product_id')
            ->groupBy('products.id')
            ->when(
                $this->direction === SortDirections::Desc,
                fn () => $query->orderByDesc('avg_rating')
                fn () => $query->orderBy('avg_rating'),
            );
 
        return $query;
    }
}

Tip given by @mmartin_joo