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Why is eager loading crucial for performance in a Laravel forum application?

My web portal is suffering from slow load times when displaying a list of questions along with their respective authors. How does eager loading fix this?
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CodeCrafter
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Without eager loading, Laravel queries the database once for the questions, and then again for every single author (the N+1 problem). Using <code>Question::with('author')->get();</code> executes only two highly optimized queries, drastically reducing server latency.
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DevExpert answered 1d ago

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