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name: laravel-api description: Build RESTful APIs with Laravel using API Resources, Sanctum authentication, rate limiting, and versioning. Use when creating API endpoints, transforming responses, or handling API authentication. user-invocable: false

Laravel API Development

Documentation

HTTP Layer

• routing.md - Routing
• controllers.md - Controllers
• middleware.md - Middleware
• requests.md - HTTP requests
• responses.md - HTTP responses
• redirects.md - Redirects
• urls.md - URL generation

API Features

• rate-limiting.md - Rate limiting
• pagination.md - Pagination
• http-client.md - HTTP client

Validation & Helpers

• validation.md - Validation rules
• strings.md - String helpers

API Controller

Copy<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Api\V1;

final class PostController extends Controller
{
    public function __construct(
        private readonly PostService $postService,
    ) {}

    public function index(): AnonymousResourceCollection
    {
        return PostResource::collection($this->postService->paginate(15));
    }

    public function store(StorePostRequest $request): JsonResponse
    {
        $post = $this->postService->create($request->validated());
        return PostResource::make($post)->response()->setStatusCode(201);
    }
}

API Routes

CopyRoute::prefix('v1')->group(function () {
    Route::get('posts', [PostController::class, 'index']);

    Route::middleware('auth:sanctum')->group(function () {
        Route::post('posts', [PostController::class, 'store']);
    });
});