API routes in Laravel - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to define a GET API route that returns a welcome message.

Laravel

Route::[1]('/welcome', function () {
    return response()->json(['message' => 'Welcome to the API']);
});

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Aget

Bpost

Cput

Ddelete

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using POST instead of GET for fetching data.

Confusing HTTP methods.

The GET method is used to retrieve data from the server. Here, Route::get defines a route that responds to GET requests.

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medium

Complete the code to define a POST API route that calls the UserController's store method.

Laravel

Route::[1]('/users', [UserController::class, 'store']);

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Apost

Bget

Cput

Ddelete

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using GET instead of POST for creating data.

Mixing up controller method names.

POST method is used to send data to the server to create a new resource. Here, the route calls the store method to add a new user.

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hard

Fix the error in the route definition to correctly define a route that updates a user by ID using PUT method.

Laravel

Route::[1]('/users/{id}', [UserController::class, 'update']);

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Apost

Bget

Cdelete

Dput

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using POST instead of PUT for updating data.

Forgetting to include the {id} parameter in the route.

PUT method is used to update existing resources. The route uses PUT to update a user by their ID.

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hard

Fill both blanks to define a route group with middleware 'auth:sanctum'.

Laravel

Route::[1](['middleware' => '[2]'], function () {
    // API routes here
});

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Agroup

Bget

Cauth:sanctum

Dapi

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using Route::get instead of Route::group for grouping.

Incorrect middleware name.

Route::group defines a group of routes with shared attributes. Here, the middleware 'auth:sanctum' protects the routes inside the group.

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hard

Fill both blanks to define a resource route for 'posts' using PostController with only 'index' and 'show' methods.

Laravel

Route::resource('posts', PostController::class)->only(['[1]', '[2]']);

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Astore

Bindex

Cshow

Dupdate

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Including methods like 'store' or 'update' when only 'index' and 'show' are needed.

Misspelling method names.

The resource route defines routes for controller methods. Using only(['index', 'show']) limits routes to listing and showing posts.