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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

Migrations help define and modify database table structure easily instead of doing the same operations with a  database manager such as PHPMyAdmin or SequelPro. It also allows sharing the application’s database schema definition without exposing the database records.

## Generating migrations
The `make:migration` artisan command generates a migration file and places it in the `database/migrations` directory. A migration file name contains a timestamp that determines the order  migrations:

Laravel will use the migration's name to guess the table's name and whether the migration will create a new table. 

If Laravel can determine the table name from the migration name, Laravel will pre-fill the generated migration file with the specified table. Otherwise, we can set the table name in the migration file manually.

## Migration structure
A migration class has two methods: `up` and `down`. The `up` method adds new tables, columns, or indexes to the database, and the `down` method reverses the `up` method operations.

# Introduction

Migrations help define and modify database table structure easily instead of doing the same operations with a  database manager such as PHPMyAdmin or SequelPro. It also allows sharing the application’s database schema definition without exposing the database records.

# Generating migrations
The `make:migration` artisan command generates a migration file and places it in the `database/migrations` directory. A migration file name contains a timestamp that determines the order  migrations:

Laravel will use the migration's name to guess the table's name and whether the migration will create a new table. 

If Laravel can determine the table name from the migration name, Laravel will pre-fill the generated migration file with the specified table. Otherwise, we can set the table name in the migration file manually.

# Migration structure
A migration class has two methods: `up` and `down`. The `up` method adds new tables, columns, or indexes to the database, and the `down` method reverses the `up` method operations.

Refresher on the concept of migrations in Laravel.

Getting Started

Introduction to API Assessment

Quick Refresher

Authentication

Create Question Endpoints

Create Answer Endpoints

Tags

Database Seeding

Password Reset

Conclusion

Database: Migrations

Introduction

Generating migrations