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name: Backend API Integration description: Generate production-ready Saloon-based API integrations for Laravel projects including connector classes, request classes, readonly DTOs, service layer methods with comprehensive error handling, and complete Pest test suites. Use this skill when integrating external APIs using Saloon, creating API request/response handlers, adding new API endpoints to existing services, building API client wrappers for third-party services, or setting up API communication with proper error handling and testing. This skill applies when working on files in app/Services/Api/, app/DataTransferObjects/Api/, creating Saloon connectors and requests, implementing API service methods, or writing API integration tests.

Backend API Integration

When to use this skill

• When integrating a new external API endpoint using Saloon in your Laravel project
• When adding new requests to an existing Saloon connector
• When creating API client wrappers for third-party services (payment gateways, shipping providers, etc.)
• When building DTOs for API request/response data structures
• When implementing service layer methods that call external APIs
• When writing comprehensive Pest tests for API integrations with mocking
• When working on files in app/Services/Api/ directory
• When creating or editing Saloon connector classes (e.g., ExampleApiConnector.php)
• When creating or editing Saloon request classes (e.g., GetUserRequest.php)
• When creating DTOs in app/DataTransferObjects/Api/ directory

This Skill provides Claude Code with specific guidance on how to adhere to coding standards as they relate to how it should handle backend API integration.

Instructions

For details, refer to the information provided in this file: backend API integration