Facades

- [Instructor] Facades are one of Laravel's … great abilities to make it easier to work with Laravel. … And they're basically a superpower … to building your application, … especially if you're new to Laravel. … First, what is a facade and why are we covering them now? … Look in your booking controller at app, … Http, Controllers, BookingController.php. … You'll notice here on line seven that our DB class … is in the name space Illuminate\Support\Facades. … That means that our DB class here is a facade. … What is a facade? … A facade is an ability to access a class … in the application service container … in a static manner via proxy. … The vast majority of Laravel's core classes … have a facade version of the class. … This enables you to, for this example … I'm not needing to know how to instantiate … the database class, … we can just write logic and talk directly to the database. … There's more examples such as caching an eventing layer, … hashing strings or passwords, logging, sending emails, …