Building RESTful API with Laravel [Video]

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About the Video Course

Building RESTful API with Laravel will make your client to server communication easier with HTTP requests. In this course, you will learn how to develop a real world, RESTful API with Laravel. You will create an API from scratch, which provides weather information from multiple sources. You will use multiple libraries and technologies like Dingo API for routing, JSON web tokens for authentication and Travis CI for continuous integration and testing. By the end of this course, you will be able to develop and implement services using RESTful APIs in an efficient way. You will be able to create applications that can communicate with the world around them and can be used as a backend for any JavaScript frontend applications.

What You Will Learn

• Build a weather API to collect weather information from multiple sources in a RESTful way
• Implement the backend of a full-featured modern JavaScript application with the User Administration API
• Integrate testing into a larger system and also verify whether the application is working
• Create a service that can get data from other applications, and aggregate and modify them
• Perform unit testing and endpoint testing for your APIs
• Authenticate JSON web token responses for a JSON RESTful API
• Handle all types of exceptions and errors from the handler
• Automate your tests and maintain your tasks

Instructions and Navigation

Assumed Knowledge

To fully benefit from the coverage included in this course, you will need:
To fully benefit from the coverage included in this course, you will need: ● Prior working knowledge of the php language ● Familiarity with Laravel ● Experience with relational databases and table data structures

Technical Requirements

This course has the following software requirements:
This course has the following software requirements: ● An editor like Atom, Sublime Text or Visual Studio Code, JetBrains PHPStorm ● PHP 7.1 ● Composer ● MariaDB / MySQL This course has been tested on the following system configuration: ● OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro ● Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X ● Memory: 16GB ● Hard Disk Space: 100MB

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