In Laravel, both gates and policies are used for authorization and access control within your application. They help you determine whether a user is allowed to perform a certain action on a particular resource.

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In Laravel, gates and policies are tools for handling authorization and access control. Gates allow general authorization checks, while policies are tailored to specific model instances. Gates are defined globally and are versatile, while policies encapsulate model-specific authorization logic.

What is the difference between Laravel Gate and Policies

<p>This article was clear and really helped clarify how each of these authorization mechanisms works within Laravel.</p>
