A guide to Laravel pipelines
When building web applications, it's handy to break down a feature's complex processes into smaller, more manageable pieces, whether by using separate functions or classes. Doing this helps to keep the code clean, maintainable, and testable.
An approach you can take to split out these smaller steps in your Laravel application is to use Laravel pipelines. Pipelines allow you to send data through multiple layers of logic before returning a result. In fact, Laravel actually uses pipelines internally to handle requests and pass them through each of your application's middleware (we'll take a look at this later).
In this article, we'll take a look at what pipelines are and how Laravel uses them internally, and we'll show you how to create your own pipelines. We'll also cover how to write tests to ensure your pipelines work as expected.
By the end of the article, you should understand what pipelines are and have the confidence to use them in your Laravel applications.
