News

RestQL Data Resolution Package for Laravel

Published
RestQL Data Resolution Package for Laravel image

RestQL is a data resolution package for your Laravel models by Gregori Piñeres:

RestQL is a Laravel eloquent-based data resolution package. This package tries to adopt GraphQL principles solving only the data that the client requests. RestQL uses your Laravel models as an entry point to add queries to then based on the eloquent methods.

This package has data resolution clauses, which are a way to improve queries based on parameters provided by the client. It’s RESTful but uses principles from GraphQL.

From the project’s readme, here’s an example of the RestQL route:

use Restql\Restql;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

// The RestQL endpoint.
Route::get('restql', function (Request $request) {
  return Restql::resolve($request);
});

And with that route, how you might use this package on the frontend to retrieve author names:

axios.get('http://laravel.app/api/restql', {
  params: {
    authors: {
      select: 'name'
    }
  }
}).then(({ data: authors }) => {
    // Do something...
    console.log(authors)
});

Finally, you’d get the following JSON back:

{
  "authors": [
    { "id": 1, "name": "Kasey Yost" },
    { "id": 2, "name": "Ike Barton" },
    { "id": 3, "name": "Emie Daniel" },
    {...}
  ]
}

Learn More

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at gregorip02/restql.

Paul Redmond photo

Staff writer at Laravel News. Full stack web developer and author.

Filed in

Sponsored

laravelcloud logo
Laravel Cloud

Easily create and manage your servers and deploy your Laravel applications in seconds.

Visit Laravel Cloud

The latest

View all →
Slow Job Alerts and Replica Commit IDs in Laravel 13.40 image

Slow Job Alerts and Replica Commit IDs in Laravel 13.40

Read article
Flock: A Free, Native Herd Alternative for Laravel image

Flock: A Free, Native Herd Alternative for Laravel

Read article
Live Props for Real-Time Updates in Inertia.js v3.11 image

Live Props for Real-Time Updates in Inertia.js v3.11

Read article
Cooldown Dependency Policy now in Composer 2.11 image

Cooldown Dependency Policy now in Composer 2.11

Read article
Email Sending and Testing for Laravel in One Account image

Email Sending and Testing for Laravel in One Account

Read article
Decide with Jev: Tie Every AI Check to the Exact Draft image

Decide with Jev: Tie Every AI Check to the Exact Draft

Read article