Laravel 6 REST API and Passport Tutorial (with an eCommerce Project)
In this tutorial, we’ll explore the ways you can build—and test—a robust API using Laravel. We’ll be using Laravel 6, and all of the code is available for reference on GitHub. Now we are going to develop an eCommerce rest API where we have a product table and a review table. Using those two tables we will make our eCommerce rest API.
RESTful APIs
First, we need to understand what exactly is considered a RESTful API. REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer and is an architectural style for network communication between applications, which relies on a stateless protocol (usually HTTP) for interaction.
HTTP Verbs Represent Actions
In RESTful APIs, we use the HTTP verbs as actions, and the endpoints are the resources acted upon. We’ll be using the HTTP verbs for their semantic meaning:
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