by Bence Gazder | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release Date: November 2018 | ISBN: 9781788292269

Learn to build RESTful APIs to make your web services expressive and powerfulAbout This VideoBuild practical, real-world RESTful APIs to communicate with the real world with Laravel.Create a user administration RESTful API to authenticate and authorize users, paginate data, and perform advanced error reporting with appropriate error messages and data transformations.Create APIs with ease which can be used as a RESTful backend for a JavaScript frontend application.In DetailBuilding RESTful API with Laravel will make your client to server communication easier with HTTP requests. In this course, you will learn how to develop a real world, RESTful API with Laravel. You will create an API from scratch, which provides weather information from multiple sources. You will use multiple libraries and technologies like Dingo API for routing, JSON web tokens for authentication and Travis CI for continuous integration and testing.By the end of this course, you will be able to develop and implement services using RESTful APIs in an efficient way. You will be able to create applications that can communicate with the world around them and can be used as a backend for any JavaScript frontend applications.The code bundle for this course is available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-RESTful-API-with-LaravelDownloading the example code for this course: You can download the example code files for all Packt video courses you have purchased from your account at http://www.PacktPub.com. If you purchased this course elsewhere, you can visit http://www.PacktPub.com/support and register to have the files e-mailed directly to you.

1. Chapter 1 : Setting Up the RESTful Application
   • The Course Overview 00:02:12
   • Installing and Configuring the Dingo API Package 00:05:41
   • First Endpoint and Manual Testing 00:04:08
   • Status Endpoints and Application Health 00:05:38
   • Application and API Versioning 00:03:42
2. Chapter 2 : Weather Service with RESTful API
   • Data Sources and Formats 00:03:48
   • Database Schema and Migrations 00:05:50
   • External Services 00:05:26
   • External Services: OpenWeatherMap 00:06:51
   • Endpoint Implementation 00:05:23
3. Chapter 3 : User Administration API
   • User Service and Seeder 00:04:45
   • Resource Implementation and Validation 00:06:26
   • Authentication with JWT Tokens 00:07:41
   • Pagination 00:05:34
   • Roles and Permissions 00:07:22
   • Advanced Fractal Queries 00:04:05
4. Chapter 4 : Testing and Maintenance
   • Testing Principles and Goals 00:06:08
   • Unit Testing Services 00:05:41
   • Endpoint Testing 00:08:02
   • Automatic Endpoint Documentation 00:05:07
   • Integration with CI Services 00:03:44