Building Teams in Laravel (Ownership & Membership)

After setting up the basic structure of my project, I implemented the team creation flow. The idea is simple: a registered user can create a team and immediately become both the owner and a member of that team. Key decision I separated: ownership → stored in teams.owner _id membership → stored in team_user pivot table This allows flexibility where: a user can belong to multiple teams roles can be managed per team How it works When registered user create a team: A new team is stored with owner_id