Laravel API First Starter Kit

Starting point for building API driven applications. Includes sample tests for Users and Sessions (Authentication)

Built using:

• Dingo API
• JSON Web Token Authentication for Laravel
• Fractal
• Laravel API Documentation Generator
• Tighten Co. Quicksand

Prerequisite

Install Composer

See https://getcomposer.org/ for more information

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Install NPM

See https://github.com/npm/npm OR https://www.npmjs.org/ for more information

Setup

Clone this repository into a folder projectname. Be sure to change projectname to your own project name.

$ git clone git@github.com:kharysharpe/laravel-api-first-starter-kit.git projectname

Remove git and intialize it as your own

$ cd projectname
$ rm -rf .git
$ git init

Install all NPM packages

$ npm install

Install all composer packages

$ composer install

Duplicate sample .env, edit the file to match your database and other settings

$ cp .env.example .env

Generate Keys

$ php artisan key:generate
$ php artisan jwt:generate

Development

TDD (only runs tests in @group tdd) see tests/UserTest.php

$ gulp watch

Generating API docs

See public/docs/index.html

$ php artisan api:generate --router="dingo" --routePrefix="v1" --bindings="id,3"

Parking Lot:

• Add tests for forgot password, reset password etc
• ? Make JSON API compliant using https://github.com/tobscure/json-api
• ? Add a console command to generate boilerplate
• ? Use queues by default for all requests (SOAesque)
• ? Create walk through

License

This starter kit is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.