Writing APIs with Lumen
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Completed on 2016-04-09
About the Book
Learn to Write REST APIs from Scratch
Want to learn how to write fully-tested REST APIs and microservices with PHP? I will walk you through developing an API and teach you how to test your code along the way.
In this book you will learn how to use Lumen—a micro-framework by Laravel—to write bullet-proof APIs. Lumen helps you write productive, maintainable APIs using modern application design.
This book is suitable for PHP developers with no Laravel experience. Only a basic understanding of HTTP and writing PHP applications is needed to get started.
What's Inside the Book?
You will learn how to write fully-tested APIs and understand essential Lumen concepts used to build a solid foundation for writing API projects. You will also learn:
- To Maintain your API's database structure through built-in database migrations
- Writing Tests with factory data in a test database
- Responding with Consistent data output in JSON
- How to respond to PHP Exceptions with JSON Responses
- How to Create, Read, Update, and Delete REST Resources
- How to represent model associations in API responses
- A solid foundation for writing tests with PHPUnit and Mockery
- Data Validation
This book is not only teaching you Lumen, it will walk you through how to use TDD to write applications and mock objects. This book is basically two books in one, in an easy-to-follow tutorial format.
About the Author
Reader Testimonials
Daniel Baron
Freelance Web Developer
If you need a head-start on how to use Lumen for stateless APIs, you should get this book. It shows the concepts on how to design, develop and test an API from the very beginning.
Michael Dyrynda
Developer, Hostworks
Paul’s “Writing APIs with Lumen” is an excellent resource for anybody looking to build APIs with the Lumen Framework. It is a thorough introduction not only to Lumen, but to writing code through test driven development using the tools available to the framework.
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- The Same Tools to Write APIs and Web Applications
- Who This Book is For
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Tools You Will Need
- About Me
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Chapter 1: Installing Lumen
- Homestead
- Mac OSX
- Linux
- Windows
- Conclusion
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Chapter 2: Hello Lumen
- 2.1: Setting Up a New Project
- 2.2: Routes
- 2.3: Middleware and Responses
- 2.4: Views
- Onward
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Chapter 3: Creating the Book Application
- Build Something Amazing
- Environment Setup
- Checking Unit Tests
- Setup Complete
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Chapter 4: Starting the Books API
- Creating the First Endpoint
- Setting up Models and Seed Data
- Eloquent Books
- Success
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Chapter 5: Creating, Reading, Updating, and Deleting Books
- 5.1: Requesting an Individual Book
- 5.2: Creating a New Book
- 5.3: Updating an Existing Book
- 5.4: Deleting books
- Conclusion
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Chapter 6: Responding to Errors
- 6.1: Test Database
- 6.2: Better Error Responses
- 6.3: Testing the Exception Handler
- Conclusion
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Chapter 7: Leveling Up Responses
- 7.1: Introducing Fractal
- 7.2: First Version of API Response Formatting
- 7.2: The FractalResponse Class
- 7.3: FractalResponse Service
- 7.4: Integrating the FractalResponse Service
- Conclusion
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Chapter 8: Validation
- 8.1: First Attempt at Validation
- 8.2: More Validation Constraints
- 8.3: Custom Validation Messages
- Conclusion
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Chapter 9: Authors
- 9.1: The Authors database schema
- 9.2: Fixing Broken Tests
- Conclusion
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Chapter 10: The /authors API Resource
- 10.1: The GET /authors Endpoint
- 10.2: The GET /authors/{id} Endpoint
- 10.3: The POST /authors Endpoint
- 10.4: The PUT /authors/{id} Endpoint
- 10.5: The DELETE /authors/{id} Endpoint
- Conclusion
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Chapter 11: Book Bundles
- 11.1: Defining the Relationship Between Books and Bundles
- 11.2: The GET /bundles/{id} Endpoint
- 11.3: Adding a Book to a Bundle
- 11.4: Remove a Book from a Bundle
- Conclusion
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Chapter 12: Ratings
- 12.1: Database Design
- 12.2: Rating an Author
- 12.3: Ratings in the Author API
- 12.4: Eager Loading Ratings
- Conclusion
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Where To Go From Here
- Laravel
- Laracasts
- Mockery
- Guzzle
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