Larapi

Larapi is an API-friendly fork of Laravel, batteries included. If you want to read a more in-depth description of the offerings and how to do modern API development in Laravel I have written a series of blogposts on the topic.

A Modern REST API in Laravel 5

Larapi comes included with...

Laravel 5.4
Laravel Passport for OAuth Authentication, including a proxy for password and refresh-token grants
A new directory structure optimized for separating infrastructure and domain code. Groups your controllers, models, etc. by resource-type. Read more and view the source code here
Optimus\Heimdal: A modern exception handler for APIs with Sentry and Bugsnag integration out-of-the-box
Optimus\Bruno: A base controller class that gives sorting, filtering, eager loading and pagination for your endpoints
Optimus\Genie: A base repository class for requesting entities from your database. Includes integration with Bruno.
Optimus\Architect: A library for creating advanced structures of related entities
Optimus\ApiConsumer: A small class for making internal API requests

Motivation

We maintain a fairly large Laravel API at Traede. Our philosophy is to utilize the framework as much as possible. However, we also strongly feel that the amount of people that use Laravel for API development is not as large as it could be. We feel that Laravel as a framework tries to focus more on traditional web development (i.e. rendering HTML). We try to modify the framework just a little bit so it is more suited for API development. Larapi is the result of the changes we have made at Traede in order to make Laravel more enjoyable as an API framework.

Installation

First clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/esbenp/larapi my-api

Install dependencies

composer install

Copy the .env file an create an application key

cp .env.example .env && php artisan key:generate

Migrate the tables.

php artisan migrate

Larapi comes with Passport include as the default authenticatin method. You should now install it using this command.

php artisan passport:install

Copy-paste the generated secrets and IDs into your .env file like so.

PERSONAL_CLIENT_ID=1
PERSONAL_CLIENT_SECRET=mR7k7ITv4f7DJqkwtfEOythkUAsy4GJ622hPkxe6
PASSWORD_CLIENT_ID=2
PASSWORD_CLIENT_SECRET=FJWQRS3PQj6atM6fz5f6AtDboo59toGplcuUYrKL

If you want to save it elsewhere or change the naming be sure to modify the LoginProxy in infrastructure/Auth/LoginProxy.php

Test installation

You can quickly test if the authentication works by creating an user using the include command.

php artisan users:add Esben esben@esben.dk 1234

Now serve your application and try to request a token using cURL

php artisan serve
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/login -H 'Content-Type:application/json' -d '
{
    "email":"esben@esben.dk",
    "password":"1234"
}'

This should return a token.

{"access_token":"eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImp0aSI6ImM0MWZiOWFjZjkyZmRiY2RhYjE0ZmEwYTFlMzMwYjBjYTEwMmRiMTA1ZGI4MmZjYzllZGUwMjRiNzI2MjA2YjRhZDU4MGZhMjUxODU2Y2RkIn0.eyJhdWQiOiIyIiwianRpIjoiYzQxZmI5YWNmOTJmZGJjZGFiMTRmYTBhMWUzMzBiMGNhMTAyZGIxMDVkYjgyZmNjOWVkZTAyNGI3MjYyMDZiNGFkNTgwZmEyNTE4NTZjZGQiLCJpYXQiOjE0ODk5NTM3MDYsIm5iZiI6MTQ4OTk1MzcwNiwiZXhwIjoxNDg5OTU0MzA2LCJzdWIiOiIxIiwic2NvcGVzIjpbXX0.SmsEyCEXBiwSgl0yMcjvCxoZ2a_7D6GDJTxTs_J-6yzUeJkOofrSV7RRafO3VvUckrNqy5sGgglrwGH_HN7_lNPU6XcgaaNzbzf-g7vCSzCicJiYZVzxqJpZVwqQ4WIQrc0lYdk7suZ7hwQulOD_Z79JhBNh1KSAyo3ABWHiRjh9NR_-iAjvlCohh7nAETDeVqoMrR99m3fwQYOjdtvRBHJ8Ei-Kx3Gn1DyOXyh8eGa5-yDtj-ZVI9x66YMXlm8wk4IMA_Oh7KJISfdpoQs4fPyrGsFAxQMFp02qEW2fzKl2eesZeiIAyDGWE4StHsuY3E4jZL0P-pjv08j5W4CBP0P64gkNw_GdbxlPPA-qZUzJlc3EtjrzZ9WZq3JAKKCGy5I1jHECDOqaQ1z7axm6rmxRWmXmRGwwkne8QxfPlXsN0sm5q98mJckeqCLUuir1VPyFn5Z-B7D80-sc7Zm-7zi-awJtZUGMcHSo_yNHXjVGcbJwFk04xoIL2QzMXpOVPLaUdlBp_obCJhdzT5Bx0o5SDdK2LwgEwbMkksqmrTJ7ypoezsc3ihVQIrMelK2lNfkH_cDcVdD3ub8oFTthbA62U6atXaIADcsgTCgOtgQ2uXTIko_btjECgL35LZDd8UxiyQT3w-pDrELGDPx17DQCsIZDJ8mC1s6E0d7EPsA","expires_in":600}

Now try to request all users GET /users using the newly issued token.

curl http://localhost:8000/users -H 'Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImp0aSI6ImM0MWZiOWFjZjkyZmRiY2RhYjE0ZmEwYTFlMzMwYjBjYTEwMmRiMTA1ZGI4MmZjYzllZGUwMjRiNzI2MjA2YjRhZDU4MGZhMjUxODU2Y2RkIn0.eyJhdWQiOiIyIiwianRpIjoiYzQxZmI5YWNmOTJmZGJjZGFiMTRmYTBhMWUzMzBiMGNhMTAyZGIxMDVkYjgyZmNjOWVkZTAyNGI3MjYyMDZiNGFkNTgwZmEyNTE4NTZjZGQiLCJpYXQiOjE0ODk5NTM3MDYsIm5iZiI6MTQ4OTk1MzcwNiwiZXhwIjoxNDg5OTU0MzA2LCJzdWIiOiIxIiwic2NvcGVzIjpbXX0.SmsEyCEXBiwSgl0yMcjvCxoZ2a_7D6GDJTxTs_J-6yzUeJkOofrSV7RRafO3VvUckrNqy5sGgglrwGH_HN7_lNPU6XcgaaNzbzf-g7vCSzCicJiYZVzxqJpZVwqQ4WIQrc0lYdk7suZ7hwQulOD_Z79JhBNh1KSAyo3ABWHiRjh9NR_-iAjvlCohh7nAETDeVqoMrR99m3fwQYOjdtvRBHJ8Ei-Kx3Gn1DyOXyh8eGa5-yDtj-ZVI9x66YMXlm8wk4IMA_Oh7KJISfdpoQs4fPyrGsFAxQMFp02qEW2fzKl2eesZeiIAyDGWE4StHsuY3E4jZL0P-pjv08j5W4CBP0P64gkNw_GdbxlPPA-qZUzJlc3EtjrzZ9WZq3JAKKCGy5I1jHECDOqaQ1z7axm6rmxRWmXmRGwwkne8QxfPlXsN0sm5q98mJckeqCLUuir1VPyFn5Z-B7D80-sc7Zm-7zi-awJtZUGMcHSo_yNHXjVGcbJwFk04xoIL2QzMXpOVPLaUdlBp_obCJhdzT5Bx0o5SDdK2LwgEwbMkksqmrTJ7ypoezsc3ihVQIrMelK2lNfkH_cDcVdD3ub8oFTthbA62U6atXaIADcsgTCgOtgQ2uXTIko_btjECgL35LZDd8UxiyQT3w-pDrELGDPx17DQCsIZDJ8mC1s6E0d7EPsA'

This should return a response like so

{"users":[{"id":1,"name":"Esben","email":"esben@esben.dk","created_at":"2017-03-19 19:59:15","updated_at":"2017-03-19 19:59:15"}]}

You can refresh a new token by requesting POST /login/refresh and logout using POST /logout

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.