laravel4cookbook

API
I seldom think of MVC in terms of applications which don’t really have views. Turns out Laravel 4
is stocked with features which make REST API’s a breeze to create and maintain.
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The code for this chapter can be found at: https://github.com/formativ/tutorial-laravel-4-api
Dependencies
One of the goals, of this tutorial, is to speed up our prototyping. To that end; we’ll be installing Jeffrey
Way’s Laravel 4 Generators. This can be done by amending the composer.json file to including the
following dependency:
1 "way/generators" : "dev-master"
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This was extracted from composer.json.
We’ll also need to add the GeneratorsServiceProvider to our app config:
1 "Way\Generators\GeneratorsServiceProvider"
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This was extracted from app/config/app.php.
You should now see the generate methods when you run artisan.
Creating Resources With Artisan
Artisan has a few tasks which are helpful in setting up resourceful API endpoints. New controllers
can be created with the command: