One of the repeated stuff in the development is hydration the Data Transfer Objects. PHP ecosystem from old days works with array and in fact, array in PHP is one of the powerful tools. for small projects, personally prefer the array but nobody can ignore the DTO goodness. recently I made a tiny package to hydrate Data Transfer Object from the request, after installing two methods `castTo()` and `hydrateTo()` will be added to `Illuminate\Http\Request`. Laravel version: https://github.com/mvaliolahi/request-hydratorPure version: https://github.com/mvaliolahi/hyrator