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This course will begin our journey into Application Programming Interface(API) Development with Laravel.  In this course, we will be going over topics like:
- Concept of Application Programming Interface (API)  and its benefits, 
- Representational State Transfer (REST) Architecture and its constraints, 
- JSON Web Token (JWT) for authentication, 
- best practices for designing a RESTful API, and much more.

We will be putting this knowledge into practical use by building a Question & Answer Restful API Application.

Application Features

- Users can signup and sign in.
- Users can reset their passwords.
- Authenticated users can post a question.
- Authenticated users can answer a question.
- The question owner can delete his question.
- Answer owner can delete his answer.

This course requires an understanding of PHP and a basic understanding of the Laravel framework. 

By the end of this course, we will be able to begin our journey in creating RESTful APIs in Laravel.

Building a Question & Answer RESTful API Application

## Introduction

A many-to-many relationship defines a relationship where multiple records in a table are associated with various records in a second table. For example, a user might have many roles, which other users can also share in the application. Thus, a user can have many roles, and many users can share a role.

## Table structure

Three database tables are needed to define this relationship: `users`, `roles`, and `role_user`. The `role_user` table is determined from the alphabetical order of the related model names and has foreign keys `user_id` and `role_id` columns. This table serves as an intermediate table (pivot table) linking the `users` and `roles`.

# Introduction

A many-to-many relationship defines a relationship where multiple records in a table are associated with various records in a second table. For example, a user might have many roles, which other users can also share in the application. Thus, a user can have many roles, and many users can share a role.

# Table structure

Three database tables are needed to define this relationship: `users`, `roles`, and `role_user`. The `role_user` table is determined from the alphabetical order of the related model names and has foreign keys `user_id` and `role_id` columns. This table serves as an intermediate table (pivot table) linking the `users` and `roles`.

Understand working with many-to-many relationships with Laravel models.

Getting Started

Introduction to API Assessment

Quick Refresher

Authentication

Create Question Endpoints

Create Answer Endpoints

Tags

Database Seeding

Password Reset

Conclusion

Eloquent Relationship: Many to Many

Introduction

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