Facades allow us to call classes defined under the service container in an elegant and expressive way - as "static" interfaces. If you are a Laravel developer, chances are that you are using Facades all the time. You may not just know that yet. Laravel ships in with many facades like Hash, Input, Mail etc. Let’s take the example of Hash facade and try to figure out how it works. You may be familiar with something like this, Hash::make(‘password’); If you search for a class named Hash, you won’t find it. Go to app/config.php and scroll down to the bottom where the class Aliases are defined. There you will see this,