Professional Standards & Competencies Flashcards

What is the professional Laravel convention for naming database tables created by Eloquent models?

Answer: snake_case plural of the model name

By convention, Eloquent maps a model named `UserProfile` to a table named `user_profiles` using snake_case plural form.

Which practice best demonstrates professional use of Laravel's dependency injection container?

Answer: Type-hinting dependencies in constructor or method signatures

Type-hinting dependencies allows Laravel's IoC container to automatically resolve and inject them, making code testable and loosely coupled.

What is the purpose of Laravel Horizon in a professional application?

Answer: It provides a web-based UI for managing and monitoring Redis-backed queues

Laravel Horizon provides a real-time dashboard and configuration for monitoring Redis queue workers, job throughput, and failures.

In professional Laravel API development, what HTTP status code should be returned when a resource is successfully created?

Answer: 201 Created

HTTP 201 Created is the semantically correct response for a successful POST request that creates a new resource.

Which Laravel feature allows professionals to version their API routes cleanly?

Answer: Grouping routes with a URI prefix like `api/v1` using Route::prefix()

Route::prefix('v1') groups all v1 API routes under the `/api/v1` URI namespace cleanly within `routes/api.php`.

What is the professional Laravel approach for transforming Eloquent model data before returning it in an API response?

Answer: Use API Resource classes (`php artisan make:resource`)

API Resource classes provide a transformation layer that controls exactly which model attributes and relationships are exposed in API responses.

Which professional practice should be followed when writing Laravel migrations to ensure they are safely reversible?

Answer: Implement both `up()` and `down()` methods correctly

Properly implementing `down()` as the inverse of `up()` ensures migrations can be rolled back cleanly during development and deployments.