• A previous blog briefly introduced Using RESTful in Laravel
• This article explains various RESTful-style route writing conventions. While not necessarily authoritative, these patterns are semantically meaningful in practice.

Base Routing

• Typically grouped with a common prefix:
  • Always follows API + version format
  • /api/v1

Basic Parameters

• Pagination parameters using QueryString:
  • limit
  • page
  • Example: /url?limit=10&page=1
• Multi-parameter sorting:
  • Example: /url?desc=created_at,id&asc=grade,updated_at

Fundamental Routes

• List categories:
  • method: GET
  • /categories
• Create category:
  • method: POST
  • /categories
• Delete category:
  • method: DELETE
  • /categories/{category}
• Get single category:
  • method: GET
  • /categories/{category}
• Update category:
  • method: PUT
  • /categories/{category}

Intermediate Routes

• Get articles under category:
  • method: GET
  • /categories/{category}/articles
• Get articles with tag:
  • method: GET
  • /tags/{tag}/articles
• Batch delete articles (avoid when possible):
  • method: DELETE
  • /articles/batch?id=1,2,3

Authentication Routes

• Common implementations:

• Login:

  • method: POST
  • /login

• Logout:

  • method: POST
  • /logout

• RESTful-compliant alternatives:

• Create token (login):

  • method: POST
  • /tokens

• Delete token (logout):

  • method: DELETE
  • /tokens/{token}

Multi-word Route Handling

• For SEO-friendly multi-word routes:
  • Use hyphen-separated format
  • Get articles by type:
  • method: GET
  • /article-types/{article_type}/articles