As the title of this chapter suggests, we will be providing a general overview of the Laravel framework, covering the main concepts related to the development of web applications using a web services architecture. More precisely, we will use a RESTful architecture in this book.
We assume that you already have a basic understanding of the RESTful architecture and how web services (here, we call them Application Programming Interface (API) endpoints) work.
However, if you are new in this concept, don't worry. We will help you get started.
The Laravel framework will be a helpful tool because with it, all of the data inside our controllers will be converted to the JSON format, by default.
The Laravel ...
