Rest API with Laravel 5.7

A RESTful API boilerplate for Laravel 5.7. Features included:

• Users Resource
• OAuth2 Authentication using Laravel Passport
• Scope based Authorization
• Validation
• Pagination
• Seeding Database With Model Factory
• Event Handling
• Sending Mail using Mailable class
• Endpoint Tests

Required

• composer
• php(version>=7.2)
• mysql

Install Laravel

$ composer create-project laravel/laravel rest_api

Install passport

$ composer require laravel/passport

Run the Artisan migrate command:

$ php artisan migrate

Create "personal access" and "password grant" clients which will be used to generate access tokens:

$ php artisan passport:install

Use HasApiTokens in user model for authentication:

use Laravel\Passport\HasApiTokens

You can find those clients in oauth_clients table.

API Routes

HTTP Method	Path	Action	Scope	Desciption
GET	/users	index	users:list	Get all users
POST	/users	store	users:create	Create an user
GET	/users/{user}	show	users:read	Fetch an user by id
PUT	/users/{user}	update	users:write	Update an user by id
DELETE	/users/{user}	destroy	users:delete	Delete an user by id

Note: users/me is a special route for getting current authenticated user. And for all User routes 'users' scope is available if you want to perform all actions.