What allows a third party to easily interact with a Laravel application’s data? The answer is an API.
Usually the API is based on JSON and REST or is REST-like. You can easily work with JSON in your Laravel application, which gives Laravel a big advantage over other PHP frameworks. Without an API you cannot interact with any third-party software that is written in a different language and that works on different platforms. So, writing APIs is a common task that Laravel developers do in their jobs.
Another advantage of Laravel is that its resource controllers are already structured around REST ...
