A clean, production-style REST API built with Laravel 12 and MySQL, following best practices such as Controllers, Services, Form Requests, Eloquent Resources (DTO-style), Factories, and Seeders.

This project mirrors the structure of a real-world backend API.

• ✅ CRUD operations for Books
• ✅ Service layer (business logic)
• ✅ Form Requests (validation layer)
• ✅ API Resources (output transformation)
• ✅ Database Migrations
• ✅ Factory-based seeding (100 books)
• ✅ Pagination (JSON API format)
• ✅ Strict typing & clean architecture

Upcoming features (roadmap):

• Search (title, author)
• Sorting (by title, author, price, year)
• Filters (price range, year range)
• Soft deletes
• Query optimization & indexing
• Swagger / OpenAPI documentation
• Feature tests with Pest
• CI using GitHub Actions (lint + tests)

• Laravel 12
• PHP 8.3
• MySQL
• Eloquent ORM
• Pest (testing)
• Factories & Seeders
• API Resource Transformers

app/
 ├── Http/
 │    ├── Controllers/
 │    │     └── BooksController.php
 │    ├── Requests/
 │    │     ├── StoreBookRequest.php
 │    │     └── UpdateBookRequest.php
 │    └── Resources/
 │          └── BookResource.php
 ├── Services/
 │    └── BooksService.php
 └── Models/
      └── Book.php

database/
 ├── migrations/
 ├── seeders/
 │    └── BookSeeder.php
 └── factories/
      └── BookFactory.php