Laravel API Toolkit

Laravel API Toolkit supercharges your API development with standardized responses, dynamic pagination, and more. At the time of writing, it supports the following features:

Schema support
Pagination helpers
API Generator Command
API filtering
Actions
Media helpers
And more...

Using the provided api:generate Artisan command, you can easily generate all the key files needed, including controller, requests, resources, models, migrations, etc:

php artisan api:generate Customer \
  "username:string|age:integer:nullable|company_id:foreignId|status:enum(new,old)" \
  --all

After running the above command, the following files are created, giving you everything you need to start building the Customer API:

Filtering is another useful feature in this package, giving you the ability to define which fields you can filter on. Given the example of a Car model, here's what your filter configuration might look like:

namespace App\Models;
 
use Essa\APIToolKit\Filters\Filterable;
 
class Car extends Model
{
    use Filterable;
 
    protected string $default_filters = CarFilters::class;
 
    // Other model code...
}

And the CarFilters class might look like:

namespace App\Filters;
 
use Essa\APIToolKit\Filters\QueryFilters;
 
class CarFilters extends QueryFilters
{
    protected array $allowedFilters = ['color', 'model_id'];
 
    protected array $columnSearch = [];
}
 
// GET /cars?color=red

Actions is another feature that you can use in this package to encapsulate business logic within distinct classes that you can use to compose

namespace App\Actions;
 
class CreateCar
{
    public function execute($data)
    {
      // ...
    }
}
 
// usage example in a controller
public function store(Request $request)
{
    $this->createCar->execute($request->all());
}

To get started with this package, check out the documentation at laravelapitoolkit.com. You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.