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Laravel Blog API: Intermediate Hands‑On Course

Build a real‑world blog API with Laravel in 6 hours

9 lessons about 6 hours intermediate certificate

This course is for Indian students and career switchers who know basic PHP and want to level up to building APIs with Laravel. You'll create a fully functional blog API, covering routing, Eloquent, authentication, validation, and testing.

By the end you will have a deployable Laravel project that supports user registration, CRUD for posts, and comment management via a RESTful API.

You’ll be ready to work on backend roles, contribute to Laravel projects, or build your own SaaS back‑ends.

What you will work through

1 Course Introduction & Environment Setup Dani Krossing · 28 min 2 Routing and Controllers Basics Laravel Daily · 14 min 3 Eloquent Models and Relationships Laracasts · 8 min 4 Database Migrations and Seeding Net Ninja · 9 min 5 API Authentication with Laravel Sanctum Learn with Jon · 19 min 6 Resource Controllers & API Resources Laratips · 37 min 7 Validation and Error Handling Laravel Daily · 13 min 8 Project 1: Posts CRUD API Laravel Daily · 14 min 9 Project 2: Comments & Feature Tests Laravel · 22 min
Final project — Blog API with Admin Panel opens after all 9 lessons locked

Final Project: Blog API with Admin Panel

Build a Laravel application with a public REST API and an admin area.

What it must do

  • Posts belong to categories and have many comments
  • Admins manage everything; authors edit only their own posts
  • A REST API exposes posts and comments under routes/api.php
  • Tests cover the main flows

What to submit A link to a public GitHub repository. Nothing else.

What is checked, automatically 14 checks · 80% to pass

Your repository is read the moment you submit. Unlimited attempts — a fail comes back as a list of what to fix.

  • Laravel project fails on its own
  • .env is not committed fails on its own Remove it and add it to .gitignore.
  • Your own repository fails on its own
  • Eloquent relationships are used fails on its own Two related tables wired with hasMany/belongsTo. This is the whole point of the course.
  • Validation lives in FormRequest classes fails on its own php artisan make:request — keep controllers thin.
  • Several models of your own Posts, categories, comments — not just User.
  • Custom middleware Write one middleware of your own.
  • A REST API is exposed Expose at least one resource under routes/api.php.
  • Tests exist php artisan make:test — at least two that actually assert something.
  • Tests actually assert
  • A seeder for sample data
  • Authorisation, not just login A policy or gate deciding who may edit what.
  • README with setup and API notes
  • Built over many commits

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The teaching videos are made by independent creators and play from YouTube, with the creator credited on every lesson. Nexgino builds the path, the notes, the project and the certificate.