---
title: 'Readonly properties'
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thread_slug: obscure-livewire-tips
author_username: samuelstancl
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created_at: 2021-04-09T17:28:56+02:00
slug: livewire-readonly-properties
---

They're a great way to make your components safer and faster.

Say you have a component for editing some resource.

You enforce the ACL in mount().

But if the user could change the currently edited resource, you'd need to enforce ACL on *all* requests!