DTOs, Entities, and Value Objects

Abstract

In the previous chapter, we examined DDD’s idea of context maps and why they are a good thing to distribute via the bounded contexts in your architecture, and why it is good to have as few cross-dependencies between the contexts as possible. The fewer dependencies each BC has to all others, the better off we are and the more independent our BCs (and application) become. In the real world, a large enterprise application could be split up to the extreme by having an entire team dedicated to each of its bounded contexts. In this chapter, we will focus on specific building blocks that come with DDD such as DTOs, entities, and value objects and discuss how to create and manage them in Laravel.