A Comprehensive Guide to Laravel Service Containers & Providers

Laravel Service Containers and Providers

The Laravel Service Container is a powerful tool for managing dependencies of classes and doing the injection of dependencies. This basically means that if a certain class is dependent on something else, then this dependency is injected into it at runtime. Laravel service providers are the central place for all Laravel application bootstrapping. They bind services into the service container, and configure events, routes, and filters. Laravel service containers and providers work together to build the most modular applications.

Overview of Laravel Service Containers

The Service Container in Laravel is almost a box that classes manage their dependencies with. It is almost the brain of the Laravel dependency injection system: for the most part, through the declaration in a big container of how and when to load multiple little pieces of the application. It helps in resolving classes and their dependencies automatically, thus complex class dependencies can be managed with a lesser amount of effort, and the associated design is more decoupled.

use App\Interfaces\PaymentServiceInterface;
use App\Services\StripePaymentService;

// Binding an interface to a class in the service…