---
title: "Stop Writing Try/Catch Like This in Laravel"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-writing-try-catch-like-this-in-laravel-snlfjhwoh
source_url: https://medium.com/@kamrankhalid06/stop-writing-try-catch-like-this-in-laravel-f8886da384c7
type: article
source: "Medium"
published: 2025-08-04T05:39:31.339Z
updated: 2025-08-04T05:39:52.708Z
tags: ["php", "laravel"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 96
comments: 7
language: en
---

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# Stop Writing Try/Catch Like This in Laravel

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 96 upvotes · 7 comments

## Summary

Identifies five common anti-patterns in Laravel exception handling that lead to production issues: blind catching of all exceptions, empty catch blocks, logging without context, transaction abuse, and controller bloat. Provides specific fixes including targeted exception catching, contextual logging, proper transaction scoping, and centralized exception handling through Laravel's global exception handler.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@vladutteodor18** · 6 upvotes

> nothing relevant here :(
>
> just to use multiple cache instead of one. but... without an valid argument.

**@brunoc** · 1 upvotes

> Actually in Laravel sendWelcomeEmail should be a Notification which is a database query (insert on queue jobs table)
>
> Otherwise some emails will be lost if emails system is down

**@ravavyr** · 1 upvotes

> stop writing try/catch at all... unless you're actually capturing the errors and logging them...
>
> silently failing code is a freaking nightmare to debug and it seems that's what most people do. Try/andfailsilently is shit coding.
> Log your errors.

**@romeltech** · 0 upvotes

> I use negate check every step of the way. 😶

**@orcdev** · 0 upvotes

> Hello Laravel, nice to see you again

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