Writing Clean, Flexible Query Filters in Laravel: Why I Built the QueryFilter Package

As a Laravel developer, I’ve always appreciated the elegance of Eloquent. But when it came to filtering complex queries especially when the filters depended on request parameters I found myself writing bloated controller logic or messy conditional clauses that just didn’t feel very “Laravel-ish.” So I built QueryFilter a lightweight Laravel package designed to help you cleanly and fluently apply filters to your Eloquent queries, without sacrificing readability or flexibility. Let me tell you the story behind it.

Apr 26, 2025 - 13:13
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Writing Clean, Flexible Query Filters in Laravel: Why I Built the QueryFilter Package

As a Laravel developer, I’ve always appreciated the elegance of Eloquent. But when it came to filtering complex queries especially when the filters depended on request parameters I found myself writing bloated controller logic or messy conditional clauses that just didn’t feel very “Laravel-ish.”

So I built QueryFilter a lightweight Laravel package designed to help you cleanly and fluently apply filters to your Eloquent queries, without sacrificing readability or flexibility.

Let me tell you the story behind it.