This is a silly one.

I wanted to run Laravel in dev mode but using the compiled js and scss from npm run build via vitejs.

This usually works

but for some reason Laravel was trying to serve js/css from http://localhost:5173/@vite/client

a service I usually run - but I wanted to test the build stuff.

The solution is really simple but not well documented.

Laravel Validation supports rules forcing unique values - but exceptions are usually needed.

For example if you have articles on a site where each has a slug that has to be unique - when you update the article it has to possible to save the article using the slug it already has.

https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/validation#rule-unique

The Laravel Docs have a section Constraining Eager Loads

Which hides a lot of power available to you while loading relationships.

It can be used for more than just “constraints”

If you want to sort your relations by a specific fields, add a count of a nested relationship, or in other ways add to teh query - this is where you can do it.