Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

Adding custom error handling

By default, Laravel has a very powerful error handling engine, but it is totally dedicated to the MVC development pattern, as we mentioned previously. In the next few lines, we'll see how we can change this default behavior and add some specific error handling to our API:

1. Open project/app/Exceptions/Handler.php and add the following code inside the render($request, Exception, $exception) function:

// This will replace our 404 response from the MVC to a JSON response.if ($exception instanceof ModelNotFoundException    && $request->wantsJson() // Enable header Accept:     application/json to see the proper error msg) {    return response()->json(['error' => 'Resource not found'], 404);}if ($exception instanceof MethodNotAllowedHttpException) ...