My personal blog where I write about programming topics - PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, some DevOps & Databases. 😎
If I’m not mistaken, Postman is the most popular REST client out there. It’s used in testing API endpoints which can be grouped into project based collections. Getting these collections out to be shared with teams(internal/external) in a clean format can be a pain sometimes. Swagger is my preferred way of sharing my API documentation with my colleagues and teams.
The Laravel Permissions package developed by one of my favourite people in the World, the team at Spatie. This package easily allows you to add the functionality of an Access Control List(ACL) to your Laravel project. You can define roles for users, then define as many permissions as you wish for these roles or directly to a user.
About a week ago(15th February, 2018), the first Black Panther movie was premiered in cinemas around the world. Woop! Woop! I am a huge Marvels movies(and some Sci-fi) and a keen follower of the MCU(Marvel Cinematic Universe). Let’s go ahead and write an API that returns data on Black Panther characters. Let’s make Shuri proud! Don’t Freeze! 😃