2 years ago

The guard clause is a nifty pattern that provides a super-simple way to clean up your code. Their main function is to terminate a block of code early, which reduces indentation of your code and therefore makes your code much easier to read and reason about.

What's awesome about the guard clause is we can take the code here, which, at some points, gets 4 if-statements deep, and reduce it to a single indentation.

However, once again, the code after our new guard clause is wrapped entirely in an if-statement.

($email = $contact->email)) { return; } $updated = Contact::query() ->where('email', $email) ->where('is_subscribed', !