What’s the big picture difference between observers and callbacks? When and where to use which one?
What’s the big picture difference between observers and callbacks? When and where to use
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What’s the big picture difference between observers and callbacks? When and where to use which one?
It’s about separation of concerns.
Observers allow you to factor out code that doesn’t really belong in models. For example, a
Usermodel might have a callback that sends a registration confirmation email after the user record is saved, but you don’t really want this code in the model because it’s not directly related to the model’s purpose.Observers allow you to have that clean separation because you don’t have all that callback code in your models. Observers depend a model (or models), not the other way around.