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REST API Response Builder for Laravel

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Introduction

ResponseBuilder is a Laravel package, designed to help you build a nice, normalized and easy to consume REST API JSON responses.

Benefits

ResponseBuilder is written for REST API developers by REST API developers, drawing from extensive experience on both sides of API development. It's lightweight, with no dependencies, thoroughly tested, and simple to use while remaining flexible and powerful. It offers support for on-the-fly data conversion, localization, automatic message building, chained APIs, and comprehensive documentation.

Moreover, the JSON structure produced by ResponseBuilder is designed with your API users in mind. Its well-defined and predictable structure makes interacting with your API using ResponseBuilder effortless. The simple, consistent JSON responses are easy to consume without any complications. Your clients will appreciate it, and by extension, appreciate you as well!

You're also covered in case of emergencies. The provided ExceptionHandlerHelper ensures your API continues to communicate in JSON (not HTML) with its clients, even in unexpected situations.

Did I mention, you would also get testing traits that automatically add PHPUnit based unit test to your whole ResponseBuilder related code and configuration with just a few lines of code absolutely free of charge?

Features

Easy to use,
Stable and production ready,
On-the-fly data object conversion,
API chaining support,
Localization support,
Provides traits to help unit test your API code,
Comes with exception handler helper to ensure your API stays consumable even in case of unexpected,
No additional dependencies.

License

ResponseBuilder is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license

marcin-orlowski / laravel-api-response-builder

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