Practice Makes You Better
Explore creating a complete CRUD module for menu items in Laravel by defining migrations, models, controllers, and validations. Learn to authenticate API calls with Bearer tokens, organize Postman collections, and write thorough tests to ensure security and proper data access. This lesson helps you practice and solidify skills in building reliable and secure Laravel API endpoints.
Overview
The new module, ‘Menu Items’, is simple. The CRUD functionality code is similar to the ‘Restaurants’ module. For your practice, we will share the steps you can follow to create the complete functionality. Let’s begin.
Postman
The screenshots for all the menu item API endpoints is given below:
Don’t forget to authenticate the above requests using ‘Bearer Token’. Its value should be
{{Token}}.
Migration + model
Any new module starts with the table definition (the migration file) and the Eloquent model class. This module is no exception.
Relevant columns are: ...