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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

JSON is a lightweight and language-independent data-representation format similar to XML or YAML. The standard file type for storing a JSON document in the filesystem is `.json`, and the MIME media type is `application/json`.

## Benefits of JSON

- JSON is light to send back and forth due to its small size
- JSON is easy to read, write and understand
- Most modern programming languages have inbuilt functionalities to parse JSON strings

## JSON structure

The structure of JSON is similar to the JavaScript object syntax. A JSON document consists of key/value pairs separated by commas, the keys surrounded by double quotes, and the whole data wrapped within curly braces.

JSON supports six data types:

# Introduction

JSON is a lightweight and language-independent data-representation format similar to XML or YAML. The standard file type for storing a JSON document in the filesystem is `.json`, and the MIME media type is `application/json`.

# Benefits of JSON

- JSON is light to send back and forth due to its small size
- JSON is easy to read, write and understand
- Most modern programming languages have inbuilt functionalities to parse JSON strings

# JSON structure

The structure of JSON is similar to the JavaScript object syntax. A JSON document consists of key/value pairs separated by commas, the keys surrounded by double quotes, and the whole data wrapped within curly braces.

JSON supports six data types:

Learn about the structure of JSON, its benefits, and how to use it in PHP.

Getting Started

Introduction to API Assessment

Quick Refresher

Authentication

Create Question Endpoints

Create Answer Endpoints

Tags

Database Seeding

Password Reset

Conclusion

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

Introduction

Benefits of JSON