How to build a Laravel API

This is a simple laravel API which includes API versioning (v1 and v2).

Getting started

1. First, clone this repo
2. CD into the directory
3. Run composer install
4. Run php artisan key:generate
5. Run table migrations php artisan migrate
6. Seed the database with some random data php artisan db:seed
7. Run php artisan serve

How to use (v1)

• Fetch index of all data in Person table with pagination
  localhost:8000/api/v1/people
  Method GET
  

• Fetch single data
  localhost:8000/api/v1/person/5
  Method GET
  Sample response

    {
    "data": {
        "id": 5,
        "first_name": "Lenna",
        "last_name": "Jacobs",
        "phone": "1-578-480-5526 x210",
        "email": "sporer.prudence@example.net",
        "country": "Cocos (Keeling) Islands",
        "created_at": "2020-11-07T20:10:56.000000Z",
        "updated_at": "2020-11-07T20:10:56.000000Z"
        }
    }

• Store new data
  localhost:8000/api/v1/person
  Method POST
  You can pass this in form-data of postman.

    {
       "first_name":
       "last_name":
       "email" :
       "phone" :
       "country" :
    }
    

• Update a single record
  localhost:8000/api/v1/person/1
  Method PUT
  Sample Body
  

    {
        "first_name" : "Nnaemeka",
        "last_name" : "Nweke",
        "phone" : "1234567890",
        "email" : "nnaemeka@example.com",
        "country" : "Nigeria"
    }
    

• Delete a single record
  localhost:8000/api/v1/person/1
  Method DELETE
  

How to use (v2)

• Fetch single data
  localhost:8000/api/v2/person/1
  Method GET
  Sample response

   {
    "data": {
        "full_name": "Nnaemeka Nweke",
        "phone": "1234567890",
        "email": "nnaemeka@example.com",
        "country": "Nigeria"
       }
   }

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