Service providers are the central place for bootstrapping Laravel application and package services. Laravel’s own framework features, such as queues, mail, cache, and database services, are configured through providers.

Application providers commonly register service-container bindings, event listeners, middleware, routes, view configuration, or package integrations. In current Laravel applications, user-defined providers are registered in bootstrap/providers.php, and a provider can be generated with the make:provider Artisan command.