how to use joins in laravel code example

Example 1: laravel join

Inner Join 	: ->join('contacts', 'users.id', '=', 'contacts.user_id')
Left Join 	: ->leftJoin('posts', 'users.id', '=', 'posts.user_id')
Right Join 	: ->rightJoin('posts', 'users.id', '=', 'posts.user_id')
Cross Join 	: ->crossJoin('colors')

Advance Queries : 
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 		->join('contacts', function ($join) {
            $join->on('users.id', '=', 'contacts.user_id')
                 ->where('contacts.user_id', '>', 5);
        })

Example 2: join in laravel

$subCategories = Subcategory::join('categories', 'subcategories.category_id', '=', 'categories.id')
                              ->select('subcategories.*', 'categories.name AS cname')
                              ->orderBy('id', 'desc')
                              ->get();