Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks for building elegant applications. In this course, learn how to build a RESTful API using Laravel. Instructor Justin Yost goes over some of the basic pieces of the framework, and then covers how to build a browse, read, edit, add, and delete (BREAD) API in Laravel. He then shares how to customize your API, including how to load related data or subresources for a primary record, return nested data, and create a logging and rate limit middleware. He also explores how to use Behat to test your API and ensure that it works as expected.