Writing Idempotent API Endpoints: A Practical Guide for Laravel
How to make POST endpoints safe to retry using idempotency keys, without duplicating orders, charges or emails.
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API Authentication with Laravel Sanctum: Tokens, Abilities and SPA Auth
How Sanctum handles both SPA cookie authentication and mobile API tokens, and how to scope tokens with abilities instead of all-or-nothing access.
Designing Versioned API Resources in Laravel That Don't Break Clients
A practical approach to API versioning in Laravel using resource classes, so you can evolve a response shape without breaking existing clients.
Building a Blazing-Fast REST API in Laravel: Caching, Eager Loading & Rate Limiting
One endpoint was firing 62 queries per request. Here is how eager loading, Redis caching, indexes and rate limiting took it from 840 ms to under 100 ms.