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Browsing the API (

http://laravel.com/api

) can be somewhat intimidating at first. 

But it is often the best way to understand how a particular method works under the 

hood. Here are a few tips:

•  The 

Illuminate

 namespace does not refer to a third-party library. It is the 

namespace that the author of Laravel has chosen for the different modules 

that constitute Laravel. Every single one of them is meant to be reusable and 

used independently of the framework.

•  When searching for a class definition, for example, 

Auth

, in the source code 

or the API, you might bump into 

Facade

, which hardly contains any helpful 

methods and only acts as a proxy to the real class. This is because almost 

every dependency in Laravel is injected into the service container when it  

is instantiated.

•  Most of the libraries that are included in the 

vendor/

 directory contain 

a 

README

 file, which details the functionality present in the library (for 

example, 

vendor/nesbot/carbon/readme.md

).