Fluent Rule Builders for All Laravel Validation Rules

For years, Laravel developers have defined validation rules using delimited strings such as 'required|string|max:255|unique:users,email'. With modern fluent rule builders, every validation rule now offers type-safe, chainable method syntax.

Cleaner, Typosafe Validation Rules

use Illuminate\Validation\Rule;

$validated = $request->validate([
    'email' => [
        Rule::required(),
        Rule::string()->max(255),
        Rule::email()->rfcCompliant(),
        Rule::unique('users', 'email')->ignore($user->id),
    ],
    'age' => [
        Rule::numeric()->between(18, 99),
    ],
]);

Fluent builders provide full autocompletion, compile-time static analysis with PHPStan, and cleaner refactoring capabilities across large teams.