Where is the boundary between Service Provider and Service Container in Laravel???

Question

Laravel

Plz help who fumbles in LARAVEL. I study Service-Container and Service-Provider. Everything seems to be clear, but... Where does the Provider and the Container begin and end??? "$this->app(.....) { }" - is app already a Container or still a provider??? or Container is whatever is in the parenthesis inside 'app'. ??? plz help.

Answer 1

There is no border, because they are different things. The container is the way to access
the Provider is the first thing loaded in your application. In it, you can just bind containers.

Answer 2

In essence, a service container is an object that stores services.
Service providers are classes that register services in a container and describe their dependencies.
And then when you write index(Request $request) in the controller, Laravel receives this class from the container, which will be created with all the necessary dependencies, and passes it to the method.
This works on reflection
https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.reflection.php