Laravel Rest Api web and mobile

@seventopo in case you have your business logic in a separate layer, like services or repositories then you will again need to create different endpoints in the api.php file in this case, and they will be served by different controllers, as they will need to return a JSON representation of the data, and not a blade view.

But if you have everything in the controller, like the calls to your database and so on.. then the easiest thing is to check on the request:

$users = User::all();

if($request->wantsJson())
{
   return $users;
}

return view('users.index', ['users' => $users]);

This is just a simple example, but I would suggest you go with the first point, creating separate routes and separate controllers, but having your business logic in a separate layer as well.

+1 for @nakov 's reply.

Another solution - and it might be quite painful - is to rewrite your web front end (possibly using vue) to consume json too. It will be a lot of work, but will ensure that your mobile and web app are using the same backend.

PS That will also mean that you have to refactor your existing backend, but going forward backend changes will only need to be made in one place. As mentioned, it won't be fun to do in the first place.

An alternative is to make your current app mobile friendly. Bootstrap for example handles the media queries for you. The trick is to optimize images and only show so many for page, and use pagination.

Google has a mobile friendly test tool: https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly?utm_source=support.google.com/webmasters/&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=%206352293

Thank you guys for your help.i choosed Nakov 's solution . returning two tipes of data and depending to my request if it need json response i'll return json if it's not by default returning a blade with my array(data) for exemple . thank you all.