Eloquent is an ActiveRecord implementation, which means a lot of the time the behavior you’re adding to your models needs to hit the database to work correctly.

Imagine you a Customer model who has many Orders, and you need a way to get the orders for that customer that haven’t been shipped yet.

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How did we get here

Chances are if you have been in web development for any amount of time you have done some work with PHP and maybe it was a great experience like it was for me, or perhaps it was hours and hours of digging through WordPress code to figure out why a plugin wasn’t working.

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If you’re already using Less for your custom stylesheets but importing Bootstrap as plain CSS, you’re missing out.

The Bootstrap website doesn’t do a great job of encouraging you to use their source Less files, but it makes it a lot easier to write clean, semantic markup.

Getting it setup in your project is also really simple, and if you do it right, you can actually get a nice reduction in file size.

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If you’ve ever used Less before, you’ve almost definitely leveraged the power of mixins to DRY up your stylesheets.

Maybe you had some standard button styling like this:

.btn {
  background: blue;
  color: white;
}

…and you wanted to include those styles in another more specific button.

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