Tech Blog API: Laravel REST API Project

Project Overview

A comprehensive RESTful API built with Laravel, providing backend functionality for a tech blog platform. The API follows best practices in terms of architecture, security, and data handling.

Key Features

🔐 Authentication System using Laravel Sanctum

User registration with validation
Secure login with token-based authentication
Protected routes for authenticated users
Secure logout mechanism

📝 Complete Post Management

CRUD operations for blog posts
Pagination for efficient data loading
Owner-based authorization for updates and deletions
Search functionality

Comment system with full CRUD operations
Post liking functionality with duplicate prevention
User-post relationships

🧩 Resource Transformation Layer

Custom resource classes for consistent API responses
Structured data presentation using resource classes
Optimized data transformation

✅ Data Validation & Error Handling

Comprehensive request validation
Standardized error responses
Custom exception handling

Technical Implementation

🏗️ Architecture

Follows Laravel’s MVC architecture
RESTful API design principles
Repository pattern for data access

🔗 Models & Relationships

User model with Sanctum integration
Post model with user, comments, and likes relationships
Comment and Like models with appropriate relationships

💾 Database

MySQL database for robust data storage
Migrations for version-controlled schema
Eager loading to prevent N+1 query problems

🔒 Security

Token-based authentication
Route middleware protection
CSRF protection
Owner-based access control

🛣️ API Endpoints

Registration, login, and logout
Post creation, reading, updating, and deletion
Comment and like management
User profile management

Development Tools

Framework: Laravel 11
Authentication: Laravel Sanctum
Dependency Management: Composer
Testing: PHPUnit
Version Control: Git
API Documentation: Postman Collection

Implementation Highlights

Clean, maintainable code following PSR standards
Thorough documentation of endpoints
Comprehensive test coverage
Optimized database queries
Structured response format

Project Outcome

Created a scalable, secure API that implements all core functionalities needed for a tech blog platform. The API is designed with extensibility in mind, allowing for future feature additions while maintaining a clean, organized codebase.

Tech Blog API demonstrates my expertise in building robust backend services with Laravel, emphasizing security, scalability, and RESTful API best practices.