Building RESTful APIs in Laravel

Discover how to build a simple RESTful API using Laravel, the popular PHP framework.

Introduction

• Building RESTful APIs in Laravel

1. An Introduction to APIs in Laravel

• API overview
• APIs in the real world
• Our application: ePetitions API
• The basics of Laravel 8

2. Setting Up Our Application

• The project infrastructure
• Creating the database structure
• Creating a model factory and seeder
• Setting up the RESTful API routes
• Challenge: Creating an author resource infrastructure
• Solution: Creating an author resource infrastructure

3. Building RESTful API

• Using API resources to display all petitions
• Saving a new petition
• Displaying a specific petition
• Updating an existing petition
• Deleting a petition
• Challenge: Building the author resource
• Solution: Building the author resource

4. Testing Our API with Postman

• Installing Postman
• GET all petitions
• POST a new petition
• GET (show) a specific petition
• PATCH (update) a petition
• DELETE a petition
• Challenge: Testing APIs with Postman
• Solution: Testing APIs with Postman

Conclusion

• Where to go from here