Zero to API With Lumen

Ever wanted to create an API but weren't sure how to get started? Create APIs quickly with the Lumen PHP micro-framework.

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1. Amanda Folson - Laracon 2016 @AmbassadorAwsum Zero to API with Lumen
2. Who Am I? ▸ Amanda Folson ▸ Developer Advocate at GitLab ▸ Professional Conference Attendee ▸ OSS ~10 years ◦ Many years of APIs
3. About Lumen ▸ Microframework ▸ Circa April 2015 ▸ Trimmed down Laravel ▸ Laravel upgrade path
4. Why Lumen?
5. Monolithic->Microservices
6. Blacklist Build Zones Honeypot API Scheduler Thing Restarter
7. What the heck is an API?
8. REST APIs ▸ Representational State Transfer ▸ Can return XML, JSON, YAML, Markdown ▸ RAPIDLY gaining adoption over SOAP/XML-RPC ◦ No need to know order of parameters
9. HTTP-based APIs ▸ Often HTTP-based ◦ Many things natively speak HTTP ▸ Stateless ◦ No sessions! ◦ HATEOAS
10. HTTP Methods OPTIONS GET DELETE PATC H PUT POST
11. Coming From Laravel
12. Getting Started
13. DotEnv
14. Facades + Eloquent
15. Routing Laravel Routing Lumen Routing
16. Artisan
17. Differences Between Laravel and Lumen in Artisan Lumen’s `artisan`: ▸ No `serve` command ▸ No `key:generate` ▸ No `tinker` ▸ No `env` ▸ No `down` ▸ No `vendor:publish`
18. Migrations ▸ Install ▸ Refresh ▸ Reset ▸ Rollback ▸ Status ▸ `db:seed`
19. Make Migrations
20. Differences in Artisan’s Make Command Lumen’s `make`: ▸ ONLY has `make:migration` ▸ No `make:model` ▸ No `make:controller` ▸ No `make:auth` + scaffolding ▸ Many more since Lumen is slimmed down
21. Pokémon API
22. Resources ▸ /resource is a gateway to an area of an application ◦ In this case, we hit /pokemon ◦ We can get a single Pokémon or a collection of them
23. Resource Collections
24. Pokédex Routes
25. A Note About Views...
26. JSON
27. Fractal
28. Pokémon Controller - Index and Store
29. Pokémon Controller - Show
30. Pokémon Controller - Update
31. Pokémon Controller - Destroy
32. Pokémon Model
33. Authentication ▸ AuthServiceProvider provided ◦ But needs to be uncommented in app.php ▸ PLENTY of other options ◦ JWT
34. Using Authentication Middleware ▸ Many packages available (JWT, OAUTH2, Stormpath, etc.) ▸ JWT used below:
35. A Note About Authentication...
36. Testing
37. Beyond This Talk ▸ HATEOAS and Hypermedia ▸ Rate limiting ▸ Running APIs at scale ▸ Events ▸ Queues ▸ Caching ▸ Encryption ▸ Logging ▸ Deploying
38. /resources ▸ Lumen and Laravel docs ◦ https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/ ▸ Paul Redmond’s Book ◦ https://www.apress.com/9781484221860 ▸ Build APIs You Won’t Hate by Phil Sturgeon ▸ RESTful Web APIs by Leonard Richardson, Mike Amundsen, and Sam Ruby ▸ Undisturbed REST by Mike Stowe ▸ Me!
39. Thank You! Amanda Folson - @AmbassadorAwsum amanda@gitlab.com