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Discussion on: Does repository pattern make sense when using it in Laravel?

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Ben Halpern

Rails works the same way, where ActiveRecord already acts as the standard object mapping on top of the database. But I saw a talk where someone described eschewing ActiveRecord for the repository pattern and it was working just fine for them.

I don't remember all the details, but my thoughts are that this is probably totally possible, but if Laravel is anything like Rails, swimming against the current is just a little awkward. You won't be facing the same problems as most of the rest of the community.

The repository pattern seems like a wonderful approach, but I wouldn't break from the framework's norm without a lot of conviction for doing so.

Would love to see some answers from folks with more insight into these things.