I'm in the process of building a fairly large API in Laravel 5. I've not had any previous experience of building an API before, but have researched REST thoroughly, I understand the concept, and I've followed all lessons so far in Laracasts' Incremental API series.
Unfortunately, the API series on here is tailored for Laravel 4.x. I do however feel as though I've successfully translated it over into a working Laravel 5 API.
The real issue though, is that the series is not complete, and hasn't been updated in a year. I therefore doubt that it will be continued any time soon, due to likely having to be re-recorded for L5.
In addition to this, Fractal (http://fractal.thephpleague.com/) was mentioned in the videos, and appears to be recommended by many, however I'm finding it difficult to see current working implementations of it so that I can see how others have implemented this library.
If anyone is able to provide any advice regarding this, I'd be hugely appreciative.
Most of the things (if not all) covered in the Incremental APIs are still valid in Laravel 5.
I'd recommend the book Build APIs You Won't Hate by Phil Sturgeon, everything you need to know about APIs is covered there.
Fractal works similar to Jeffrey's custom classes and methods, and it has a few extra features but the API might be different. Read the documentation on the website to understand how to use it if you haven't done that yet. (I am guessing you already did read it). What are you struggling with?
Thank you Ruffles, I've now purchased that book and will have a read through.
To be honest, although I had Jeffrey's code working fine, I'm having issues translating this into Fractal. I would have imagined that due to the popularity of both Fractal and Laravel, there'd be a resource somewhere for best practices with the two, but alas I've not found any so far.
+1 for Building Apis You Wont Hate. If you follow the book through it shows how to use fractal as well.
If your looking for an example you can have a look at my repo https://github.com/jamieshiers/Classroom-booking which uses fractal, it's only the beginnings of a project but it might help you out.
