Laravel 5.x Cookbook

Building an API / JSON based route for searching

In Chapter 6, Adding Angular to Your App we will cover Angular and in there I needed to make an API for the widget to talk to. Let's review that again here in more detail.

Getting ready

A fresh install of Laravel will do.

How to do it...

Follow the steps to build an API / JSON route for searching:

1. Add our controller:

   > php artisan make:controller SearchComics
   

2. Add our route:
   
3. Fill in the controller:
   
4. And in the ComicClientInterface class, I handle the comics method like this. I will go into more details in the ...