Mary Perry - Auth factories in Laravel - Laracon AU 2025

Mary Perry explores how Socialite, the service container and Laravel’s session drivers all reveal real world factory and abstract factory patterns. Through her story about implementing Slack OAuth, Mary shows how Laravel hides complexity behind clean interfaces and well structured design patterns. 📚 ## Chapters 00:39 Mary introduces herself 01:42 A Laravel powered jobs board for her local tech meetup 02:20 Explaining OAuth, access management and how Socialite wraps providers 02:45 Refusing to believe OAuth could be that easy in Laravel until it worked first try 03:05 Determination to understand what was happening beneath the surface 03:50 Decoupling is essential for factory patterns 04:10 Introducing the factory pattern 05:00 How the Socialite manager functions as a factory 05:40 HTTP statelessness and session storage 06:30 Socialite and session managers are factories created by the service container 07:10 Walkthrough of session manager construction 08:12 How Socialite and session products interact at runtime 09:03 Why concrete Laravel code provides more meaningful insight for self taught developers 09:40 Why Laravel source code is excellent for learning 10:03 Reviewing when to use abstract factories and how Laravel meets those conditions 11:05 Discussing configuration driven families of products 12:00 Tying together factory creation of Socialite manager and session manager 12:40 How Socialite provider drivers are resolved, callbacks are handled and customising behaviour 13:10 Walking through building a provider 13:45 Reading code is challenging at first but improves with practice 14:28 Final takeaway https://x.com/sifrious https://bsky.app/profile/mary.win https://laracon.au