Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5

Creating an API route

We'll begin on the server side and add a route for the frontend to POST listing IDS to. We'll need to add the auth middleware so that only authenticated users can access this route (we'll discuss the meaning of :api shortly).

routes/api.php:

...Route::post('/user/toggle_saved', 'UserController@toggle_saved')  ->middleware('auth:api');

Since this is an API route, its full path will be /api/user/toggle_saved. We haven't yet created the controller that this route calls, UserController, so let's do that now:

$ php artisan make:controller UserController

In this new controller, we'll add the toggled_saved handling method. Since this is an HTTP POST route, this method will have access to the form data. We'll make it so that ...