Laravel routes/web.php and routes/api.php

Question

The routes/web.php have common application routes, Like showing the views, Getting the data from the form to a controller method.

The routes/api.php will have routes for getting records of the tables/entities in JSON . Updating, Deleting etc via api routes ?

Question 1 : How will i use my routes/api.php routes to get, delete, Update data/Records ?

Question 2 : Android app will be able to use my api ? If yes, How ?

Question 3 : The API should have a controller ApiController ?

Let the kid know the stuff !

Thanks

Answer 1

1:

Put this into your RouteServiceProvider file:

    $router->group(['namespace' => $this->webNamespace], function ($router) {
        require app_path('routes/web.php');
    });


    $router->group(['namespace' => $this->apiNamespace], function ($router) {
        require app_path('routes/api.php');
    });

1.1 in routes/web.php file (alternative):

require_once "../../routes/api.php";

2:

yes. use your routes as you would use them in any other frontend application. For example: localhost/api/myAndroidRoute

3:

doesn't really matter. you can use one controller for all the routes, or one controller for each route. Whichever option you like. If you have a lot of code, separate it into different controllers for better readibility. For example:

Route::get('api/sampledata', 'ApiController@getSampleData'); // controller@function
Route::get('api/otherdata', 'SomeOtherController@getOtherData');

or

Route::get('api/sampledata', 'AllmightyController@getSampleData');
Route::get('web/otherdata', 'AllmightyController@getOtherData');