Tag · API

Laravel 5.6 suggests a simple structure for creating API-driven applications. Your API routes are declared in their own routes/api.php file, and can leverage the auth:api Middleware for security.

Imagine you have a form where dropdowns depend on each other. Common example is a city select, where you need to choose a country first, and then cities list is refreshed. How to do it in Laravel?

Sometimes you want to have a route that only accepts AJAX calls, or at least protect them if they are not AJAX calls.

ecently, Laravel changed some composer dependencies, so the framework comes with a JSON Web Token package included by default. Since we have the package to use JWT, let’s make a custom authentication guard for APIs using JSON Web Token.

In this post series we will see how to build a Laravel Restful application. In addition we will see the basic functionalities of Eloquent ORM, Tinker db queries and some relationships between Models.

In this tutorial we will develop a full API authentication system which can be used by any application which is able to perform requests.