Mobile App API: New Lumen project, or use existing Laravel Project?

Considering building a small mobile app for our website- nurserypeople.com.

I want to use the existing database(obviously), and a lot of the functionality will be the same, but I am wondering if it would be best to build a separate backend for the mobile api, for speed and separation of concerns. Would this be the best route to go? The mobile backend would be built on lumen.

Another question I have is for user authentication, will the application key need to be the same if I want to authenticate users through the api as well?

mohsinr

3 years ago

Level 11

Hi All,

I have question like @cwray-tech we want to build API for existing Laravel Project (developed by another dev team/company). Should we build it to existing Laravel App or Lumen will be better as separate project , what could be possible pros and cons of this approach verses using existing Laravel project. Have anyone any experience using either approach, and what you advise given your experience.

Thank you Mohsin

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