Lumen Microservices framework from Laravel – How to build RESTful APIs with it?

How to Install Lumen

• Lumen uses Laravel composer to manage its dependencies with the system.

• By executing the above statement; It will download and install lumen installer using Composer. Once its installed into your local system then it will allow you to create new directory.

• On the execution of above statement; it will create new directory with name college. The new directory will have all the dependencies of Lumen already installed.

Alternate way for Installation of Lumenory

• With above statement; you can install Lumen by issuing Composer create-project command.

Building REST API with Lumen

• Step 1: Configuration

Replace .env file and default CACHE_DRIVER and QUEUE_DRIVERvalues with below values.

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• Step 2: Database and Migration

Now we will create migration file by executing following command.

It will create new migration file in the database.Students table will have following
attributes – first_name, last_name, dob, email.
Below code you need to enter into newly created migration file.

After this – you need to Edit .env file with your database configuration and execute below command.

• Step 3: Create Student model

Now create app directory and create new model with name student.php and paste following code.

Lumen doesn’t load Eloquent and Facades. To get that; you need to find the below
code and remove comment from there (if commented).

• Step 4: Setup Controller

Now reach to app/Http/Controller directory and add following code there into controller file.

• Step 5: Setup Routes

Now the time has come to add routes into your web application. Open web.php and add following code

Now you need to add dummy information to test the web application.

That’s it, Lumen is now successfully installed.

Bottom line

Lumen is laravel, with stripped down speed. It does not bother with sessions, views or other conveniences faced by user as it is optimized for speedy microservices. Try it out by getting in touch with developers at Bytes Technolab. To know how we can bring tools together to build a modern business solution using Laravel, feel free to contact us.