At the January meetup we held sessions on Laravel Airlock covering a wide assortment of topics like why we need it, its installation & configuration, authenticating simple APIs, authenticating SPAs and authentication with Mobile Device. Laravel Airlock provides a featherweight authentication system for SPAs (single page applications), mobile applications, and simple, token-based APIs. Airlock allows each user of your application to generate multiple API tokens for their account. These tokens may be granted abilities/scopes which specify which actions the tokens can perform.

Apart from of Laravel Airlock, the community covered topics for ABC of API development with Laravel, brief description about the content to be covered, what is API, setting up required environments, adding basic endpoints - Add / Update / Delete, different type of HTTP verbs, route resource / mass assignment, response status codes, response formats, response header / custom headers, authentication, adding CORS, etc