What is the difference between putFile and regular store??

Question

Laravel

$path = $request->file('avatar')->store('avatars');
 $path = Storage::putFile('avatars', $request->file('avatar'));

The documentation says that putFile is a file streaming to storage and can significantly reduce memory usage.
But what does this mean, in any case, we save the file in storage. Or does putFile compress the file?

Answer 1

store is a wrapper around putFileAs for convenience - see here
putFile also uses putFileAs