Rest Api with Laravel(5.5)

An oauth2 rest api starter

Want to Build Upon It ?

First, clone the repo:

$ git clone git@github.com:antwigambrah/laravel-api-starter.git

Install dependencies

$ cd laravel-api-starter
$ composer install

Configure environment in the .env file

Run the Artisan migrate

$ php artisan migrate 

Create passport oauth2 personal clients to generate access tokens

Personal Access Tokens)

To create both personal access clients and password access clients

$ php artisan passport:install

or

To create password access clients

$ php artisan passport:client --password

N:B The Grant type for the oauth2 implementation is Resource owner credentials grant(Password grant) which allows your application(client) to create tokens for authenticated users after every login.This is mostly suitable when API may be consumed by your web application, mobile applications etc where a user token is issued after user is authenticated as in jwts.

Api routes

HTTP Method	Path	Action	Desciption
POST	/api/v1/auth/register	register	Register a new account
POST	/api/v1/auth/login	login	Login
GET	/api/user	getUserDetails	Fetch authenticated user

Create new User Account

Generate access token

Access authenticated user with token

License

MIT license