Building APIs in Laravel is an art form. You must think beyond data access and wrapping your Eloquent Models in API endpoints.
The first thing you need to do is design your API; the best way to do this is to think about the purpose of your API. Why are you building this API, and what is the target use case? Once you have figured this out, you can effectively design your API based on how it should be integrated.
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