Blog Rest

Rest api for creating blog posts, getting them as well as deleting and updating them.

Pre-requisites

• composer is set up globally
• php is also installed

Deploying to local environment

1. Install vendor stuff composer install
2. Create .env file from .env.example @php -r "file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');"
3. Then set up Homestead php vendor/bin/homestead make
4. Set up and boot virtual machine vagrant up
5. Now go inside vagrant machine vagrant ssh
6. Create db tables with migration command (inside vagrant!) php code/artisan migrate
7. Then populate categories table with some data php code/artisan db:seed (also inside vagrant!)
8. Done, you can now see the list of categories GET /api/categories and query another endpoints (see host in Homestead.yaml)

Supported endpoints

GET /api/categories

GET /api/posts

POST /api/posts - supports JSON payload

PUT /api/posts/{id} - supports JSON payload

GET /api/posts/{id}

DELETE /api/posts/{id}

Create and update payload example

{
    "title": "The coolest post",
    "body": "lorem ipsum...",
    "category_id": 1
}

Unit testing

Just run composer test