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In today’s fast-paced development world, building an API is easy, but building a great API takes skill, planning, and a clear understanding of best practices.

Building Better APIs with Laravel is your comprehensive guide to creating clean, secure, and high-performing APIs using Laravel, one of the most popular PHP frameworks.

This book walks you through every stage of API development—from planning and structuring your routes, to optimizing performance for high traffic, to implementing bulletproof security measures that protect your data and your users. You’ll explore modern API design principles, learn how to handle authentication and authorization effectively, and discover performance-enhancing techniques used by industry experts.

What You’ll Learn:

How to design RESTful APIs following Laravel’s conventions.
Best practices for request validation, error handling, responses, and API versioning.
Implementing secure authentication, rate limiting, and role-based authorization.
Performance optimization techniques including caching, database tuning, and pagination.
Background processes or batch processes. Laravel queue jobs.
Testing strategies to ensure your API works reliably under real-world conditions.
How to document your API for easy integration and onboarding.

Thank you and happy reading...

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