https://sebastiandedeyne.com/eager-load-relations-in-laravel-using-with-where-has/ https://sebastiandedeyne.com/tags/laravel/When using whereHas in Laravel, it’s not uncommon to also eager load the relation using with. $posts = Post::query() ->with('author') ->whereHas('author', function (Builder $query) { $query->where('name', 'Seb'); }) ->get(); Laravel also has a more succinct method that combines the two: withWhereHas. $posts = Post::query() ->withWhereHas('author', function (Builder $query) { $query->where('name', 'Seb'); }) ->get();