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.
Follow the steps to build an API / JSON route for searching:
Add our controller:
> php artisan make:controller SearchComicsAdd our route:
Fill in the controller:
And in the
ComicClientInterfaceclass, I handle thecomicsmethod like this. I will go into more details in the How it works… section:
Show it working at the UI level http://recipes.dev/api/v1/search:
Figure 1 Example of JSON Response from Search
First, I will go over what I did above but then I will show another example to simplify it more.
As usual, I made the controller and plugged in the route. Note I use api/v1/ as a route prefix. This just helps me later on do a breaking API change at /api/v2. There are other ways to do this but for now...
