Gain insights into developing fast, secure APIs in Laravel. Delve into validation, testing, API resources, and Laravel Sanctum, useful for mobile app developers and third parties.

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Run register tests

Run Restaurant Tests

Run login tests

Run country tests

Run table status tests

Run order tests

Run order item tests

Run menu item tests

Register User

Validate Registration

Login

Validate Login

Laying Foundation

Add Restaurant

Add Menu

Add Table

Transition Table

Order API

Order API-2

Order Items-1

Order Items-2

Complete Order

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, and elegant syntax. In this course, you will be making API endpoints for a restaurant management system using Laravel.

Laravel offers many features for developing and managing API endpoints quickly. During this course, you will use them and touch upon some very important features like validation, testing helpers, API resources, Laravel Sanctum, and more. Along the way, you will be tested with quizzes to evaluate your understanding.

By the end of this course, you will have complete confidence in your ability to create API endpoints, which will come in handy for mobile app developers and other third parties.

Developing Fast and Secure APIs in Laravel

## Factories in motion

Time to use one more Laravel goodie called [Factory](https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/database-testing#defining-model-factories). Usually, developers need to manually add a record in the database table to  quickly test data retrieval. But that does not scale in terms of the number of records and the number of times we need to repeat the process.

Laravel factories allow us to add any number of records with random data according to different types of columns. By executing a single line, we can add thousands of records in one go. You will see their usage throughout this course.

## Fix the default factory

Each new Laravel web app bundles the default `UserFactory` class, which contains the hashed password. If you remember, we added a Laravel mutator to hash the password before adding records to the database. We will need to fix that by replacing it with the plain text value. Please open the `database/factories/UserFactory.php` file and replace the `password` value with the following:

```php
'password' => '123456', // Hashed by the mutator
```

Perfect! You are now ready to use the factory in the upcoming login tests.

## Building on top of things

We have already covered the tests for the `/register` API endpoint in detail. Although a significant portion of that would be helpful to cover this endpoint, a couple of new things await:

# Factories in motion

Time to use one more Laravel goodie called [Factory](https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/database-testing#defining-model-factories). Usually, developers need to manually add a record in the database table to  quickly test data retrieval. But that does not scale in terms of the number of records and the number of times we need to repeat the process.

Laravel factories allow us to add any number of records with random data according to different types of columns. By executing a single line, we can add thousands of records in one go. You will see their usage throughout this course.

# Fix the default factory

Each new Laravel web app bundles the default `UserFactory` class, which contains the hashed password. If you remember, we added a Laravel mutator to hash the password before adding records to the database. We will need to fix that by replacing it with the plain text value. Please open the `database/factories/UserFactory.php` file and replace the `password` value with the following:

```php
'password' => '123456', // Hashed by the mutator
```

Perfect! You are now ready to use the factory in the upcoming login tests.

# Building on top of things

We have already covered the tests for the `/register` API endpoint in detail. Although a significant portion of that would be helpful to cover this endpoint, a couple of new things await:

Learn about Laravel Factories that help with quick records generation during the process of adding more tests.

Tests for Login

Introduction to the Course

Authentication

Restaurants

Menu Items

Tables

Orders

Conclusion

Appendix

Tests for Login

Factories in motion

Fix the default factory