Building robust APIs with Laravel just got easier. Introducing the Laravel API Starter Kit—a modern, Dockerized foundation designed to accelerate your backend development. Idea Brief The Laravel API Starter Kit is a comprehensive boilerplate designed specifically for backend developers who need to quickly scaffold RESTful APIs using Laravel. Unlike general-purpose starter kits, this one focuses exclusively on API development, implementing industry best practices like Service and Repository patterns to ensure clean, maintainable, and testable code. This starter kit aims to solve common challenges in API development by providing a standardized structure, consistent response formats, and allowing developers to focus on business logic rather than repetitive boilerplate code. Core Features The API Starter Kit includes the following core features: Service Class Pattern Repository Pattern Standardized API Response Structure API Versioning Query Builder (Dynamic filtering, sorting, and pagination using Spatie Query Builder) Authentication using JWT Request Validation Resource Transformers API Documentation Telescope for Development & Debugging. Code Quality Tools (Pint, Larastan, IDE Helper) Pest for Testing (already configured and ready to use, see current tests). Docker Configuration Git Hooks (pre-commit and pre-push to automatically run Pint, Larastan, and test suites) Requirements PHP 8.2+ Composer MySQL 8.0+ / PostgreSQL 12+ / SQLite 3 Installation Using Laravel Installer laravel new my-app --using=hdeawy/api-starter-kit Using Composer composer create-project hdeawy/api-starter-kit Using Docker Install starter using Docker docker run -it --rm \ -v $(pwd):/app \ -w /app \ -e COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 \ composer:2.5 \ create-project hdeawy/api-starter-kit . Update the .env file with your database credentials DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=mysql DB_PORT=3306 DB_DATABASE=laravel_api DB_USERNAME=root DB_PASSWORD=password
Building robust APIs with Laravel just got easier. Introducing the Laravel API Starter Kit—a modern, Dockerized foundation designed to accelerate your backend development.
Idea Brief
The Laravel API Starter Kit is a comprehensive boilerplate designed specifically for backend developers who need to quickly scaffold RESTful APIs using Laravel. Unlike general-purpose starter kits, this one focuses exclusively on API development, implementing industry best practices like Service and Repository patterns to ensure clean, maintainable, and testable code.
This starter kit aims to solve common challenges in API development by providing a standardized structure, consistent response formats, and allowing developers to focus on business logic rather than repetitive boilerplate code.
Core Features
The API Starter Kit includes the following core features:
- Service Class Pattern
- Repository Pattern
- Standardized API Response Structure
- API Versioning
- Query Builder (Dynamic filtering, sorting, and pagination using Spatie Query Builder)
- Authentication using JWT
- Request Validation
- Resource Transformers
- API Documentation
- Telescope for Development & Debugging.
- Code Quality Tools (Pint, Larastan, IDE Helper)
- Pest for Testing (already configured and ready to use, see current tests).
- Docker Configuration
- Git Hooks (pre-commit and pre-push to automatically run Pint, Larastan, and test suites)
Requirements
- PHP 8.2+
- Composer
- MySQL 8.0+ / PostgreSQL 12+ / SQLite 3
Installation
Using Laravel Installer
laravel new my-app --using=hdeawy/api-starter-kit
Using Composer
composer create-project hdeawy/api-starter-kit
Using Docker
- Install starter using Docker
docker run -it --rm \
-v $(pwd):/app \
-w /app \
-e COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 \
composer:2.5 \
create-project hdeawy/api-starter-kit .
- Update the
.envfile with your database credentials
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=mysql
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel_api
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=password
