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Mithridates's avatar

Good Laravel API starting boilerplate

What's a good project/repo for starting to develop an API using Laravel? I've already found https://github.com/apiato/apiato and https://github.com/francescomalatesta/laravel-api-boilerplate-jwt. But didn't get a good feeling for none. The first one for imposing so many new things to learn which isn't necessary also I got a sense that the project's maintainer deviates so much from Laravel core principles. And the second repo for being updated for more than 3 months ago. Please criticize me if you feel you should and also provide some other projects to kick off developing APIs with Laravel.

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shez1983's avatar

laravel 5.5 is pretty good i think - it includes resources which is what you need.. and it has versioning.. what more do you need ( actually use lumen for a bit of a speed depending on api complexity but even if its complex api in lumen other tasks in laravel)

actually on second thoughts a library/package might make sense if you want to start offering some functionality like filtering ie i can do api.com/users?filter=male... etc.. for that here is a package (outdated/inactive so use with care)

prettus/l5-repository

here is previous topic

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/the-best-laravel-rest-api-package?page=1

martinbean's avatar

@karakhanyans Nice to see you’ve joined just to spam multiple years-old threads with links to your paid product.

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