🔗 Be less eager: using without() alongside $with in Laravel

Laravel’s Eloquent allows us to define relationships as methods on our models, which we can access as properties within our code. I’m not here to teach you about Eloquent relationships, eager loading and why and when you want to use it – Laravel’s documentation is awesome so give it a read.

For a project, I’ve got a model that has a number of relationships that store supporting and necessary data, and any time I use the model, I need them. Always.

Well, nearly always. I needed to figure out how to disable eager loading for a nested relationship that had its relationships loaded with $with. And so here we have the topic for this blog post.