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Oh no, another tech company has discovered a way to make their employees happier by treating them like humans. How did this happen? I bet you’re wondering. It’s like a revelation from the future, isn’t it? But let me explain what’s really going on.
Firstly, let’s start with Laravel’s API Resources and Resource Collections. These are tools that allow you to transform your Eloquent models and model collections into JSON responses in a way that is both powerful and easy to use. They provide a flexible way to express your data in a structured format that can be easily consumed by APIs.
When you create a Resource, you define its properties and methods. In the case of an Article resource, you might have a field for the article’s title, body, published_at, and created_at timestamps. Laravel automatically maps these properties to the corresponding JSON keys in the response.
Here’s a basic example of an Article resource implementation:
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