Query and load entity by Entity Type Manager

Question

Currently I am firstly "searching" for an taxonomy term entity with the Entity Query in Drupal 8:

$termIds = \Drupal::entityQuery('taxonomy_term')
  ->condition('field_code', $code)
  ->condition('vid', 'computer')
  ->execute();

And then I am loading the taxonomy term entity:

      $termId = current($termIds);
      $term = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()
        ->getStorage('taxonomy_term')
        ->load($termId);

Is there a way to do it in 1 step, instead of these two?

Answer 1

You can do this in one step by using loadByProperties():

$term = current(\Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('taxonomy_term')
  ->loadByProperties(['field_code' => $code, 'vid' => 'computer'])
);

This method is a shortcut for basic entity queries like you have here and also includes the step for loading the entities.