Developer tests Eloquent-style REST client against 62 public APIs

A Laravel developer built a REST client that mimics Eloquent's query interface and tested it against 62 public APIs, including PokéAPI and the Art Institute of Chicago API. The client allows developers to use familiar methods like paginate(), with(), and get() to interact with external REST endpoints as if they were database models. Each API's response structure, such as envelope keys and pagination styles, is handled through simple model configuration rather than custom parsing code. The tool automatically strips response envelopes, maps foreign keys to relationships, and fires concurrent requests when eager-loading related resources. The post documents real response outputs across varied API designs, highlighting how consistently the client adapted to different pagination and data-wrapping conventions.