Laravel API starter Kit will provide you with the tools for making API's that everyone will love, API Authentication is already provided with passport.

Here is a list of the packages installed:

• Laravel Passport
• Laravel Socialite
• Laravel Fractal
• Laravel Permission
• Intervention Image

To install the project you can use composer

composer create-project joselfonseca/laravel-api new-api

Modify the .env file to suit your needs

APP_NAME=Laravel APP_ENV=local APP_KEY= APP_DEBUG=true APP_URL=http://localhost LOG_CHANNEL=stack LOG_LEVEL=debug DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 DB_PORT=3306 DB_DATABASE=laravel DB_USERNAME=root DB_PASSWORD= BROADCAST_DRIVER=log CACHE_DRIVER=file QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync SESSION_DRIVER=file SESSION_LIFETIME=120 MEMCACHED_HOST=127.0.0.1 REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1 REDIS_PASSWORD=null REDIS_PORT=6379 MAIL_MAILER=smtp MAIL_HOST=mailhog MAIL_PORT=1025 MAIL_USERNAME=null MAIL_PASSWORD=null MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=null MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}" AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID= AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY= AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1 AWS_BUCKET= PUSHER_APP_ID= PUSHER_APP_KEY= PUSHER_APP_SECRET= PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER=mt1 MIX_PUSHER_APP_KEY="${PUSHER_APP_KEY}" MIX_PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER="${PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER}" 

When you have the .env with your database connection set up you can run your migrations

php artisan migrate

Then run php artisan passport:install

Run php artisan db:seed and you should have a new user with the roles and permissions set up

Navigate to the project root and run vendor/bin/phpunit after installing all the composer dependencies and after the .env file was created.

The project uses API blueprint as API spec and Aglio to render the API docs, please install aglio and merge-apib in your machine and then you can run the following command to compile and render the API docs

composer api-docs

The Laravel API Starter kit is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license