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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

In a Laravel application, the routes files (`web.php` and `api.php`) located in the `routes` directory will contain all application routes.

Application routes defined in the `web.php` file are routes accessible through the web. The web routes are assigned to the web middleware group, providing session state and CSRF protection features. 

Application routes defined in the `api.php` are stateless and assigned to the API middleware group. 

The `App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider.php` file automatically loads these files.

## Basic routing
The `Route` class registers routes within our Laravel project that responds to any HTTP methods.

# Introduction

In a Laravel application, the routes files (`web.php` and `api.php`) located in the `routes` directory will contain all application routes.

Application routes defined in the `web.php` file are routes accessible through the web. The web routes are assigned to the web middleware group, providing session state and CSRF protection features. 

Application routes defined in the `api.php` are stateless and assigned to the API middleware group. 

The `App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider.php` file automatically loads these files.

# Basic routing
The `Route` class registers routes within our Laravel project that responds to any HTTP methods.

Refresher on the basic concept of routing in Laravel.

Getting Started

Introduction to API Assessment

Quick Refresher

Authentication

Create Question Endpoints

Create Answer Endpoints

Tags

Database Seeding

Password Reset

Conclusion

Routing

Introduction