Choosing API Paradigm

I am writing an API that will be consumed by a frontend application like ReactJS, and I am a little unsure how to go about that. I've seen the official documentation suggest using ApiResource but I'm relatively new in API development. A fairly straightforward approach I use looks like so:

// log user out
    public function logout(Request $request)
    {
        try {
            $request->user()->currentAccessToken()->delete();
            return response()->json([
                'status' => 'success',
                'message' => 'You have been logged out!'
            ]);
        } catch (Exception $e) {
            return response()->json([
                'status' => 'error',
                'message' => 'Logging out failed',
                'error' => $e
            ]);
        }
    }

where the Logout request is made to an API route '/logout'. I want to understand what is the difference between this approach and Apiresource, and most importantly which approach should I take, if I want to encrypt the JSON responses sent to the client application