--- title: How to Build a REST API With Laravel | daily.dev description: How to Build a REST API with Laravel Laravel lets you easily and quickly build RESTful APIs. In this free course you'll learn everything you need to know to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-rest-api-with-laravel-zcq8btjsi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Build a REST API With Laravel | daily.dev og:description: How to Build a REST API with Laravel Laravel lets you easily and quickly build RESTful APIs. In this free course you'll learn everything you need to know to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-rest-api-with-laravel-zcq8btjsi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZCQ8BTjsI.png og:image:alt: How to Build a REST API With Laravel og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Build a REST API With Laravel **[Tuts\+](https://daily.dev/sources/tuts_plus)** · 4 min read · 28 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary How to Build a REST API with Laravel Laravel lets you easily and quickly build RESTful APIs. In this free course you'll learn everything you need to know to build a RESTful API. What You'll Learn - define data models and seeding database test data - handle basic GET requests - transform data into a consistent and conventional JSON format. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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