#Laravel Transporter

Transporter is a "futuristic way to send API requests in PHP. This is an OOP approach to handle API requests":

// Using HTTP client directly
Http::withToken(config('jsonplaceholder.api.token'))
    ->get("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos", [
        'completed' => 'true',
    ]);
 
// Using Transporter
TodoRequest::build()->send();

To get a visual of the magic happening behind the TodoRequest extending the Transporter package, here’s the TodoRequest class:

namespace App\Transporter;
 
use Illuminate\Http\Client\PendingRequest;
use JustSteveKing\Transporter\Request;
 
class TodoRequest extends Request
{
    protected string $method = 'GET';
    protected string $baseUrl = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com';
    protected string $path = '/todos';
 
    protected array $data = [
        'completed' => true,
    ];
 
    protected function withRequest(PendingRequest $request): void
    {
        $request->withToken(config('jsonplaceholder.api.token'));
    }
}

The above class will send completed=true to the API by default, but the package does allow you to override the defaults at runtime:

TodoRequest::build()->withData([
    'completed' => false,
])->send();

This package uses the Laravel HTTP Client, so you can use the same API, including support for fake responses in tests:

use JustSteveKing\Transporter\Request;
 
Request::fake();
 
TestRequest::build()
    ->withToken('foobar')
    ->withData([
        'title' => 'Build a package'
    ])
    ->withFakeData([
        'data' => 'faked'
    ])
    ->send();

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub. The author Steve McDougall also wrote a post Introducing - Laravel Transporter, that explains more background and examples of this package.