In this tutorial, we are going to learn about facades in Laravel 8.

Facades provide a static interface to classes that are available in the application's service container. Laravel facades serve as static proxies to underlying classes in the service container, providing the benefit of a terse, expressive syntax while maintaining more testability and flexibility than traditional static methods.

So, let's create a custom facade. Go to the project and inside the app folder, create a new folder. Let's say the folder name is PaymentGateway.

Inside the PaymentGateway folder, create a file. Let's say the file name is Payment.php. Inside the Payment.php file, write the following code:

<?php 
namespace AppPaymentGateway; 
class Payment { 
    public function process() 
    { 
        echo `Processing the payment`; 
    } 
} 

Now, create another file. Let's say the file name is PaymentFacade.php. Inside the PaymentFacade.php file, just write here:

>