Which provider do I use to bind my database repositories in laravel 5?

Question

I am working with laravel 5 and I am novice developer so I just learnt how to use the Repository pattern. Now as novices go, I first use the routes.php file to bind my UserRepositoryInterface to DbUserRepository like so:

App::bind('UserRepositoryInterface', 'DbUserRepository');

This is just psuedo, image the namepspaces with the above code too.

So after this I realized that that there is something called a Service Provider which is supposed to contain code like so. Now I refactored this in the AppServiceProvider in my Providers folder and it works fine still.

But since I will be having so many more repositories, is this is a good idea to place them into the AppServiceProvider or should I go ahead and make a dedicated provider for my repositories and bind them there? What is the best way to do this? Is there a standard for this?

Answer 1

So later I got to understand that this all about preference so I coded a RepositoryServiceProvider in which I bind all the repository contracts to the desired implementations like so:

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

use Archive\Repositories\TenantRepository;
use Archive\Repositories\TenantRepositoryEloquent;

use Archive\Repositories\UserRepository;
use Archive\Repositories\UserRepositoryEloquent;

use Archive\Repositories\OrderRepository;
use Archive\Repositories\OrderRepositoryEloquent;

class RepositoryServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Bootstrap the application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Register the application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        $this->app->bind(TenantRepository::class, TenantRepositoryEloquent::class);
        $this->app->bind(UserRepository::class, UserRepositoryEloquent::class);
        $this->app->bind(OrderRepository::class, OrderRepositoryEloquent::class);
    }
}