Building a Production-Ready CRUD API in Laravel: Menu Categories for Django Developers

Building a Laravel CRUD API: Menu Categories for Django Developers As a Django developer learning Laravel, one of the first things I wanted to understand was how Laravel handles CRUD APIs. In Django REST Framework, I would normally use a model, serializer, ViewSet, and router. Laravel has similar concepts, but they are organized differently. In this article, I'll build a menu-categories API with: Create The goal is not just to make the endpoint work, but to structure it in a way that is maintainable in a production application. Django vs Laravel Coming from Django, this mapping helped me under