stevelacey / laravel-browsable-api

1.2.0 2026-08-26 23:54 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.2
• illuminate/support: >=12.0

Requires (Dev)

• laravel/pint: ^1.0
• orchestra/testbench: ^10.0|^11.0
• pestphp/pest: ^3.0

Suggests

• barryvdh/laravel-debugbar: Integrates PHP Debug Bar
• beyondcode/laravel-query-detector: Notifies you when you should add eager loading (N+1 queries)

MIT

• framework
• rest
• api
• laravel
• browsable
• drf

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-08-26 23:55 UTC

README

Laravel Browsable API is a package for serving human-friendly HTML output when using a browser, based on Django REST Framework's Browsable API

The package prepends a middleware to the api router group that wraps responses with a basic Bootstrap 4 based HTML template, and linkifies any URLs found

Installation

composer require stevelacey/laravel-browsable-api

Laravel 5.5 uses Package Auto-Discovery, so doesn't require you to manually add the ServiceProvider

If you don't use auto-discovery, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php

SteveLacey\LaravelBrowsableApi\ServiceProvider::class,

Copy the package config and view into your project with the publish command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="SteveLacey\LaravelBrowsableApi\ServiceProvider"