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Laravel, shipping fast.

APIs that survive deadlines, pivots, and other people

Julian Beaujardin 28 chapters 342 pages EN · ES Audiobook · 6 h 32 min

A book on building Laravel APIs that survive deadlines, product pivots and the people who inherit them. It is sold on Amazon and Google Play, and as an audiobook.

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Contents

Preface

2 sections
  1. 01 How I Learned This
  2. 02 What “Shipping Fast” Actually Means

Chapter 1

Getting Started

1 section
  1. 01 The Structure You Already Know

Chapter 2 Members

A Request and a Response

2 sections
  1. 01 Validation Beyond the Basics
  2. 02 Resources: What Leaves Your API

Chapter 3 Members

The Provider Behind an Interface

3 sections
  1. 01 The Contract
  2. 02 Retrying, Carefully
  3. 03 The Layer I Took Out

Chapter 4 Members

Authentication

3 sections
  1. 01 Protecting the Routes
  2. 02 Credentials per Consumer
  3. 03 Expiry, Rotation, Revocation

Chapter 5 Members

Data You Own

5 sections
  1. 01 The Routes
  2. 02 The Resource
  3. 03 Authorization on a Record
  4. 04 Issuing a Token
  5. 05 Deleting

Chapter 6 Members

The Request Pipeline

3 sections
  1. 01 Rate Limiting
  2. 02 Language
  3. 03 The Things That Aren’t Your Code

Chapter 7 Members

Error Handling and Logging

3 sections
  1. 01 Failures That Aren’t Yours
  2. 02 What Gets Reported
  3. 03 Context That Makes a Log Worth Keeping

Chapter 8 Members

Idempotency and Safe Retries

3 sections
  1. 01 A Middleware for It
  2. 02 Optional, or Required?
  3. 03 What to Tell Your Consumers

Chapter 9 Members

Performance and Optimization

3 sections
  1. 01 Cache Invalidation You Can Reason About
  2. 02 Pagination Is a Performance Decision
  3. 03 A Time Budget for Every Request

Chapter 10 Members

Queues and Background Work

4 sections
  1. 01 Jobs That Can Run Twice Safely
  2. 02 Retries, Backoff, and Giving Up
  3. 03 Chaining Long Multi-Step Work
  4. 04 A Sweep That Doesn’t Trust Anyone to Notice

Chapter 11 Members

Scheduled Work and Commands

2 sections
  1. 01 The Scheduler
  2. 02 Commands That Change Data

Chapter 12 Members

Testing and Quality Assurance

4 sections
  1. 01 What an API Test Should Assert
  2. 02 Faking the Service You Don’t Own
  3. 03 Testing Work That Happens Later
  4. 04 Static Analysis as a Second Opinion

Chapter 13 Members

Monitoring and Observability

2 sections
  1. 01 The Four Signals Worth a Dashboard
  2. 02 Tracing a Request You Can’t Reproduce

Chapter 14 Members

Developer Experience

2 sections
  1. 01 Conventions a Newcomer Can Infer
  2. 02 Tooling That Agrees With Itself

Chapter 15 Members

Documenting the API

2 sections
  1. 01 Keep It True
  2. 02 A Changelog With Dates

Chapter 16 Members

API Evolution

2 sections
  1. 01 Versioning at the Edge, Not Through the Code
  2. 02 Deprecating With a Date

Chapter 17 Members

Data Management

2 sections
  1. 01 Schema Changes on a Live Table
  2. 02 Deletion Requests and What They Touch

Chapter 18 Members

When Consumers Ask for More

4 sections
  1. 01 Sending It Safely
  2. 02 Batch Operations Without Timeouts
  3. 03 Search That Stays Consistent With the Source
  4. 04 Long-Running Exports

Chapter 19 Members

A Security Review

6 sections
  1. 2. Broken Authentication
  2. 4. Unrestricted Resource Consumption
  3. 6. Unrestricted Access to Sensitive Business Flows
  4. 7. Server-Side Request Forgery
  5. 8. Security Misconfiguration
  6. 06 What the List Doesn’t Cover

Chapter 20 Members

Deployment

2 sections
  1. 01 Migrations During a Deploy
  2. 02 Secrets That Never Reach the Repository

Chapter 21 Members

Beyond One App

2 sections
  1. 01 One Owner for Each Vendor
  2. 02 Reads and Writes Can Take Different Roads

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Conclusion

Appendix A Members

The License API at a Glance

1 section
  1. 01 Endpoints

Appendix B Members

The Laravel Documentation Behind Each Chapter

Appendix C Members

A Checklist for a New Endpoint

Appendix D Members

Glossary

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About the Author

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