When you're building a Laravel application, it's tempting to reach for abort() whenever something...
Laravel developers should replace abort() calls in business logic with custom domain exceptions, enabling code reuse across controllers, jobs, and CLI commands. This decouples HTTP concerns from domain logic and improves testability by asserting on domain exceptions rather than HTTP exceptions.
When you're building a Laravel application, it's tempting to reach for abort() whenever something goes wrong, let's take a flight booking app. trying to check a user in to a flight:
abort(422, 'Passenger has already checked in.');
abort(403, 'Boarding has closed for this flight.');
abort(404, 'Booking not found.');
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