API

News / February 28, 2017

Laravel Forge API

Laravel Forge just announced it’s first official API that allows you to create and interact with your servers and sites. This was a highly requested feature and the API includes support for all the features Forge provides including Servers, Services, Daemons, Firewall Rules, Sites, SSL, and more. To get started login to your Forge account …

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by Eric L. Barnes

API
Forge

Development Tools / October 17, 2016

Insomnia – A simple, beautiful, and free REST API client

Working with API’s is a common task we all face and one tool that makes this is easier is the Insomnia REST client created by Gregory Schier. It’s cross-platform compatible and works on Mac, Windows, and Linux. With the app, you can quickly create requests by specifying the URL, payload, headers, and authorization all in …

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by Eric L. Barnes

API
REST

Laravel Packages / May 23, 2016

Laravel API Generator

Marcel Pociot released a new package that will automatically generate API documentation from your existing routes. What is neat is it automatically scans your Controller method docblocks to generate the table of contents and also hooks in with form request validation to show a list of requirements. This generator uses Documentarian which is a port …

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