--- title: "99% of devs DON'T UNDERSTAND Laravel..." url: https://daily.dev/posts/99-of-devs-don-t-understand-laravel--hzltximf3 source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuIljMDou1o type: video:youtube source: "CodeHead" published: 2026-02-16T16:32:07.314Z updated: 2026-02-16T16:32:42.337Z tags: ["performance", "php", "laravel", "dependency-injection"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 17 comments: 4 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 99% of devs DON'T UNDERSTAND Laravel... **[CodeHead](https://daily.dev/sources/codehead)** · 3 min read · 17 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Laravel provides powerful built-in features that most developers ignore, leading to bloated, hard-to-maintain code. Key underutilized features include the service container for automatic dependency injection, advanced Eloquent relationship methods with eager loading to prevent N+1 queries, and the queue system with Horizon for background job processing. Instead of writing manual solutions, developers should leverage Laravel's framework capabilities for cleaner, more scalable applications. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@pihedy** · 1 upvotes > I completely agree. Containers are not a new thing in Laravel, or anywhere else for that matter. (I even developed one for a custom WP theme because it made the work so much easier). > > Fortunately, we are in a position where the company we work for supports us for one hour a week to give presentations to each other as a DEV team on different technologies, and the current topic of the presentations is the features hidden in Laravel itself. This allows us all to get to know the framework we work in a little better. --- Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel), [#dependency-injection](https://daily.dev/tags/dependency-injection) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/99-of-devs-don-t-understand-laravel--hzltximf3)