Shipping an API Other Teams Can Use

At some point, someone else needs to talk to your data: a mobile app, a partner’s system, a frontend built by a different team. That means REST or GraphQL endpoints, request validation, consistent error responses, and ideally documentation that doesn’t go stale the moment the code changes. Hand-writing all of that per resource is exactly the kind of repetitive work modern PHP tooling exists to eliminate.

• API Platform: A Full API From One PHP Class generates REST, GraphQL, and OpenAPI docs from a single annotated class.
• Laravel: Sanctum, Resources, and API Versioning covers Laravel’s lighter-weight, more manual, and more common approach.
• WordPress: The Built-In REST API shows what’s already exposed without installing anything.