Introduction

Building a robust, secure, and maintainable RESTful API is crucial for modern applications. Laravel provides an elegant and powerful toolkit for API development. Following these best practices will help you create a clean, consistent, and scalable API.

General Best Practices

• Rate Limiting: Protect your API from abuse by implementing rate limiting. Laravel's built-in throttle middleware makes this easy.
• Pagination: For endpoints that return a list of resources, use pagination to manage large datasets.
• Caching: Implement caching strategies for frequently accessed data to improve performance.