Certificate Authentication

Introduction

Laravel and PHP Overview

• Modularity, routing, configuration management, and ORM
• Composer and Artisan

Preparing the Development Environment

• Installing Composer
• Installing Vagrant
• Installing GitHub Shell
• Installing Postman

RESTful APIs and Laravel

• Creating components
• Implementing RESful API models
• Creating a database structure
• Using database seeding
• Browsing records
• Reading records
• Editing records
• Adding records
• Deleting records
• Transforming API data
• Managing subresources
• Returning nested data
• Returning sideloaded data
• Paginating API

API Errors and Exceptions

• Generating a missing record error
• Returning validation errors
• Processing errors

Middleware Handler

• Building a middleware for logging
• Building a middleware for rate limiting

Authentication

• Working with token authentication
• Using OAuth for creating tokens

API Testing and Troubleshooting

• Setting up Postman
• Using endpoint testing

Summary and Conclusion