Laravel transformer vs resource

Question

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.

Herby

it looks like Transformer is a third-party package,in the other hand, Resources is official – Aikens

can you share with us some hints? what are you actually getting confuse?. – Blastogenesis

please visit those links i mentioned – Herby

Answer 1

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.

Harumscarum

awesome. thanks for your answer. i was looking for that. – Herby

Answer 2

Found this on a google search below your post:

You build out each "transformer" (which would be the equivalent of a "resource"), with the ability to include or not include whichever relationships you want solely based off the of request URL.

Eglanteen

That's not the OP question, he asked the difference between using Laravel API Resource and Fractal Transformers. – Harumscarum