Rest API with lumen 5.7

A RESTful API boilerplate for lumen 5.7. Features included:

• Users Resource
• OAuth2 Authentication using JWT Auth
• Scope based Authorization
• Validation
• Pagination
• Event Handling
• Sending Mail using Mailable class
• Endpoint Tests

Required

• composer
• php(version>=7.2)
• mysql

Install lumen

$ composer create-project laravel/lumen rest_api

Install JWT Auth

$ composer require tymon/jwt-auth

Required Changes:

In "bootstrap/app.php" file

// Uncomment this line
$app->register(App\Providers\AuthServiceProvider::class);

// Add this line
$app->register(Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\LumenServiceProvider::class);

Uncomment from "auth" middleware

$app->routeMiddleware([
    'auth' => App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
]);

Create "secret token" clients which will be used to generate access tokens:

php artisan jwt:secret

Use this trait in user model for authentication:

use Tymon\JWTAuth\Contracts\JWTSubject

All needed settings found in following Package:

https://github.com/tymondesigns/jwt-auth

API Routes

HTTP Method	Path	Action	Scope	Desciption
GET	/users	index	users:list	Get all users
POST	/users	store	users:create	Create an user
GET	/users/{user}	show	users:read	Fetch an user by id
PUT	/users/{user}	update	users:write	Update an user by id
DELETE	/users/{user}	destroy	users:delete	Delete an user by id

Note: users/me is a special route for getting current authenticated user. And for all User routes 'users' scope is available if you want to perform all actions.