JSON:API for Web Artisans

Implement feature-rich JSON:API compliant APIs in your Laravel applications. Build your next standards-compliant API today.

Why use JSON:API and Laravel JSON:API?

Great question! Here's some reasons from this excellent article by Denisa Halmaghi:

Why Use JSON:API?

Standardised, consistent APIs.
Feature rich - some of which are: sparse fieldsets (only fetch the fields you need), filtering, sorting, pagination, eager loading for relationships (includes, which solve the N+1 problem).
Easy to understand.

Why use Laravel JSON:API?

Saves a lot of development time.
Highly maintainable code.
Great, extensive documentation.
Strong conventions, but also highly customisable.
Makes use of native Laravel features such as policies and form requests to make the shift easier for developers.
Beautiful, expressive Nova-style schemas.
Fully testable via expressive test helpers.

class PostSchema extends Schema
{

    /**
     * The model the schema corresponds to.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    public static string $model = Post::class;

    /**
     * The maximum include path depth.
     *
     * @var int
     */
    protected int $maxDepth = 3;

    /**
     * Get the resource fields.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function fields(): array
    {
        return [
            ID::make(),
            BelongsTo::make('author')->type('users')->readOnly(),
            HasMany::make('comments')->readOnly(),
            Str::make('content'),
            DateTime::make('createdAt')->sortable()->readOnly(),
            DateTime::make('publishedAt')->sortable(),
            Str::make('slug'),
            BelongsToMany::make('tags'),
            Str::make('title')->sortable(),
            DateTime::make('updatedAt')->sortable()->readOnly(),
        ];
    }

    /**
     * Get the resource filters.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function filters(): array
    {
        return [
            WhereIdIn::make($this),
            WhereIn::make('author', 'author_id'),
        ];
    }

    /**
     * Get the resource paginator.
     *
     * @return Paginator|null
     */
    public function pagination(): ?Paginator
    {
        return PagePagination::make();
    }
}

Documentation

See our website, laraveljsonapi.io

Tutorial

New to JSON:API and/or Laravel JSON:API? Then the Laravel JSON:API tutorial is a great way to learn!

Follow the tutorial to build a blog application with a JSON:API compliant API.

Installation

Install using Composer

composer require laravel-json-api/laravel

See our documentation for further installation instructions.

Upgrading

When upgrading you typically want to upgrade this package and all our related packages. This is the recommended way:

composer require laravel-json-api/laravel --no-update
composer require laravel-json-api/testing --dev --no-update
composer up "laravel-json-api/*" cloudcreativity/json-api-testing

Example Application

To view an example Laravel application that uses this package, see the Tutorial Application.

License

Laravel JSON:API is open-sourced software licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.