Laravel Interview Questions (1-2 Years Experience)

Basic Level - Laravel Fundamentals

1. What is Laravel, and why is it so popular?

2. Explain the Laravel request lifecycle.

3. What is the purpose of .env files in Laravel? How do you use them?

4. Explain the difference between get, post, put, and delete methods in Laravel routing.

5. What is a Service Provider in Laravel? How is it used?

6. What is the use of middleware in Laravel? Provide an example of custom middleware.

7. How do you define a route in Laravel? Provide examples of different types of routes.

8. What is the difference between Route::get() and Route::resource()?

9. What is the blade template engine, and why is it used in Laravel?

10. How do you handle form validation in Laravel?

Database Basics

1. What are migrations in Laravel? Why are they useful?

2. Explain the purpose of the artisan command in Laravel. Name some commonly used commands.

3. What is Eloquent ORM? How does it differ from raw SQL queries?

4. Explain how to use HasMany and BelongsTo relationships in Eloquent with an example.

5. How do you create and use a database seeder in Laravel?

Intermediate Level - Authentication and Authorization

1. How does Laravel handle authentication by default?

2. What is the difference between Guard and Middleware in Laravel authentication?

3. How do you implement role-based access control in Laravel?

4. What are Laravel policies, and how do you define them?

Intermediate Level - Advanced Querying with Eloquent

1. How do you use Query Scopes in Eloquent models? Give an example.

2. What are accessors and mutators in Laravel models? How do they work?

3. Explain how to use eager loading and lazy loading in Eloquent. When would you use them?

Error Handling

1. How do you handle errors in Laravel? Explain with examples.

2. What is the purpose of the try-catch block in Laravel? How can you log exceptions?

3. How can you customize the default error pages in Laravel?

Services and Dependency Injection

1. What is dependency injection in Laravel? Provide an example of how it works.

2. What are Laravel facades, and how are they different from dependency injection?

3. How do you create and use a service class in Laravel?

Advanced Level - Event Handling

1. What are events and listeners in Laravel? Provide an example of how to implement them.

2. What is the purpose of the Observer pattern in Laravel?

Queues and Jobs

1. How do you implement queues in Laravel? Why would you use them?

2. Explain the difference between synchronous and asynchronous queue drivers in Laravel.

3. What is the purpose of the Dispatchable trait in Laravel jobs?

API Development

1. How do you build a RESTful API in Laravel?

2. Explain the difference between Resource classes and Resource Collections in Laravel.

3. What is API rate limiting, and how is it implemented in Laravel?

Testing

1. How do you perform testing in Laravel? Explain the difference between unit testing and feature testing.

2. How do you use the assert functions in Laravel for testing?

Optimization

1. What is route caching in Laravel? How does it improve performance?

2. How do you optimize database queries in Laravel?

Database Questions - Migrations and Schema

1. How do you create a new database table using Laravel migrations?

2. How do you add or modify a column in an existing table using migrations?

3. What are some commonly used schema builder methods in Laravel (e.g., increments, timestamps, foreig

4. How can you set up foreign key constraints in Laravel migrations? Provide an example.

5. How do you roll back a specific migration in Laravel?

Database Questions - Eloquent ORM

1. Explain the difference between find(), first(), and get() methods in Eloquent.

2. How do you handle soft deletes in Laravel? What changes are required in your model and migration?

3. What are the differences between one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships in Laravel?

4. How do you implement a polymorphic relationship in Laravel? Provide a use case.

5. How do you paginate database results in Laravel? Provide an example.

Database Questions - Query Builder

1. How is Laravels Query Builder different from Eloquent ORM?

2. What is the difference between join() and leftJoin() in Laravel Query Builder?

3. How can you perform aggregate functions (like count, max, sum) in Laravel Query Builder?

Git Basics

1. What is Git, and why is it important in software development?

2. What is the difference between git pull and git fetch?

3. Explain the purpose of the following Git commands: git add, git commit, git push, git clone.

4. How do you initialize a Git repository in your project?

5. What is the difference between git status and git log?

Git Branching and Merging

1. What is the difference between git merge and git rebase?

2. How do you create a new branch in Git, and how do you switch to it?

3. What is the purpose of the git checkout command?

4. How do you resolve merge conflicts in Git?

5. Explain the difference between a local branch and a remote branch.

Git Advanced and Collaboration

1. What is a Git tag, and how do you create one?

2. How do you roll back to a previous commit in Git without deleting your changes?

3. What is the difference between git reset, git revert, and git checkout?

4. How do you set up a project to work collaboratively with a team using Git?

5. What is the purpose of a pull request, and how is it different from a merge?