How do you force a JSON response on every response in Laravel?

Question

I\'m trying to build a REST api using Laravel Framework, I want a way to force the API to always responed with JSON not by doing this manulaly like:

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Answer 1

I know this has been answered but these are not good solutions because they change the status code in unpredictable ways. the best solution is to either add the appropriate headers so that Laravel returns JSON (I think its Accept: application/json), or follow this great tutorial to just always tell Laravel to return JSON: https://hackernoon.com/always-return-json-with-laravel-api-870c46c5efb2

You could probably also do this through middleware as well if you wanted to be more selective or accommodate a more complex solution.