Building a REST API with Laravel - Part 1: API Design, Versioning & Sanctum Authentication
Ship a tested Laravel REST API with Sanctum: /api/v1 routes, token abilities and expiry, one JSON error format, and fixes for three 401/403/429 bugs.
Comprehensive multi-part tutorial series that take you from initial setup through production deployment of real applications.
Ship a tested Laravel REST API with Sanctum: /api/v1 routes, token abilities and expiry, one JSON error format, and fixes for three 401/403/429 bugs.
We tested ChatGPT and Claude across 15,000 production queries spanning code generation, medical reasoning, and creative tasks. Here's what the benchmarks revealed about accuracy, speed, and cost.
Laravel 12 product, variant and integer-price schema, indexed catalog queries with EXPLAIN output, and a database cart that merges on login, all tested.
Laravel SaaS queues and observability: in my Horizon test a separate queue cut a small tenant's wait from about 15 s to about 2 s. Tenant log IDs, limits, queue depth.
Test and harden a Laravel 12 checkout with real output: the CSRF-off-in-tests gotcha, the Stripe webhook CSRF blind spot, CSP, rate limits, a k6 smoke test and PCI DSS SAQ A vs A-EP.
After building and scaling SaaS applications serving over 50,000 organizations, I've learned that **the architecture decisions you make on day one will either e...
Make a Laravel 12 app stateless with Redis, fix a slow query with EXPLAIN, stop cache stampedes, and watch a Kubernetes HPA scale it on kind.
**Estimated Reading Time:** 22 minutes | **Difficulty:** Intermediate to Advanced...
Laravel 12 Stripe webhooks that handle duplicate and out-of-order events: signature check, idempotency keys, an order state machine, and a full runnable test setup.
Why Laravel list endpoints need nullable on every query rule, and the two bootstrap/app.php settings that stop 302 and 500 responses on bare API requests.