Putting files in the right places? You can technically put them anywhere you like, and just use proper namespacing. For example laravel defaults to App/ for mo

Putting files in the right places? You can technically put them anywhere you like, and just use proper namespacing. For example laravel defaults to App/ for models.. so App\User which is ugly if you have 50 models. I ALWAYS use App\Models\User instead, so I move it to the App\Models folder, put all my other models there and presto, chango. Have you looked at validation in laravel 5.6? Use Validator ... $v = Validator::make($request->all(), [ 'email' => 'required|unique:users' ]); if($v->fails()){ return $v->errors()->first(); } .. continue we passed validation.. If you can't grok the code above in laravel, not sure what you suggest that would be better.