Right now, if you want to hook into Eloquent's boot or initialize phases, you need to use magically named methods. For example:

trait Locatable {
  public static function bootLocatable() { ... }
  public function initializeLocatable() { ... }
}

If you ever rename the trait, you need to remember to also rename the methods. And if you misspell the method name, it can be hard to debug.

This introduces two new traits that add the same behavior:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Attributes\Boot;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Attributes\Initialize;

trait Locatable {
  #[Boot]
  public static function namedWhatever() { ... }

  #[Initialize]
  public function alsoNamedWhatever() { ... }
}

A couple additional "features" that we get for free with this approach:

• You can now add boot and initialize hooks in the model directly if you want to
• You can add multiple hooks in the same trait if you need to for some reason