Building RESTful APIs in Laravel

MP4 | Video: 720p | Duration: 2:19:17 | English | Subtitles: VTT | 624.2 MB

Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks for building elegant applications. In this course, learn how to build a RESTful API using Laravel. Instructor Justin Yost goes over some of the basic pieces of the framework, and then covers how to build a browse, read, edit, add, and delete (BREAD) API in Laravel. He then shares how to customize your API, including how to load related data or subresources for a primary record, return nested data, and create a logging and rate limit middleware. He also explores how to use Behat to test your API and ensure that it works as expected.

Topics include:

Reviewing the basics of an API

Basic pieces of the Laravel framework

Reading, adding, editing, and deleting a record

API errors and exceptions

Transforming your API data

Returning nested and sideloaded data

Creating a logging middleware

Authenticating to your API

Basic and advanced endpoint testing