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Managing Hierarchical Data in Laravel: Recursive, Adjacency List, and Nested Set Compared

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tegos-article/article-laravel-managing-hierarchical-data
• Owner: tegos-article
• License: mit
• Created: 2025-06-12T15:15:54.000Z (19 days ago)
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• Last Pushed: 2025-06-14T14:13:05.000Z (17 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-14T15:27:15.799Z (17 days ago)
• Topics: adjacency-list, hierarchical-data, laravel, nested-set, php
• Homepage: https://dev.to/tegos/managing-hierarchical-data-in-laravel-b9k
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# Managing Hierarchical Data in Laravel: Recursive, Adjacency List, and Nested Set Compared

![Managing Hierarchical Data in Laravel](assets/poster.jpg)

This article explores three practical strategies for handling hierarchical data in Laravel 12 APIs, using a realistic

dataset of 1,000 automotive part categories:

* **Recursive Eloquent Relationships** - Laravel-native and intuitive

* **Adjacency List with Recursive CTEs** - using [`staudenmeir/laravel-adjacency-list`](https://github.com/staudenmeir/laravel-adjacency-list)

* **Nested Set Model** - optimized for reads via [`kalnoy/nestedset`](https://github.com/lazychaser/laravel-nestedset)

You'll get practical code samples, sample API responses, and some reality-check benchmarks.

Whether you're building a category tree, comment system, or organizational chart, this guide will help you pick the

right approach.

🔗 **Read the article**: [Managing Hierarchical Data in Laravel](#)

💻 **View source code**: [github.com/tegos/laravel-hierarchical-data](https://github.com/tegos/laravel-hierarchical-data)