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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

## Laravel concepts

This section of the course will go over some basic concepts in Laravel that we will be using while building our Q&A project.
We’ll be covering the following lessons in this section:

- Routing
- Controllers
- Responses
- Validation
- Middlewares
- Migrations
- Eloquent ORM
- Eloquent relationship
- Notifications


# Laravel concepts

This section of the course will go over some basic concepts in Laravel that we will be using while building our Q&A project.
We’ll be covering the following lessons in this section:

- Routing
- Controllers
- Responses
- Validation
- Middlewares
- Migrations
- Eloquent ORM
- Eloquent relationship
- Notifications


Refresh your knowledge of basic Laravel concepts.

Getting Started

Introduction to API Assessment

Quick Refresher

Authentication

Create Question Endpoints

Create Answer Endpoints

Tags

Database Seeding

Password Reset

Conclusion

Overview of Laravel Concepts

Laravel concepts