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🔥 Laravel Tip: Prevent model hydration on Eloquent queries

Nov 18, 2022

If you want to take advantage of Eloquent features (ex: scopes, soft deletes, etc).

But you don't want the query to hydrate models for performance reasons. You can call the `toBase` method on your query.
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