Laravel transformer vs resource

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Emtiaz Zahid picture Emtiaz Zahid · Sep 18, 2018 · Viewed 12.4k times · Source

I am little bit confused about the difference between Laravel eloquent resource and transformers. When i should use resource and when i should use transformers. Did some research on it from laravel documentation and medium article but its look like same purpose.

May be i have wrong concept about that. Any knowledge share from anyone will be appreciate.

Answer

Elias Soares picture Elias Soares · Oct 26, 2018

Laravel Eloquent API Resource was released on Laravel 5.5.

Before this feature exists officially, there was a package from spatie called spatie/laravel-fractal that's a wrap for league/fractal.

Both packages archives the same objective with different approach.

I prefer using the Eloquent API Resource since it's embedded on Laravel, so I reduce one (direct) dependency.

Note: The medium article uses the Fractal package, but this article is very superficial, you can find more detailed instructions on spatie/laravel-fractal, it you decide to use it.

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