Is it possible to create a second Laravel “api route” with a separate API KEY?

Question

I\'m new to Laravel and I am handed an existing application that is composed of two parts:

1 - An admin backend built on Laravel and uses Vueify

2 - The fron

Answer 1

You need to define a new route file, firstly add a new entry $this->mapApi2Routes(); in the map() function in app\Providers\RouteServiceProvider.

Then add a new function in that file, basically copying the mapApiRoutes() function, call it mapApi2Routes(). You can use different middleware etc. for the new file.

The last step would be adding a new file api2.php in the routes folder.

Answer 2

You can decompose routes in as many files as you want, you can also give each file its own prefix (like how api.php routes start with /api)

The modification need to be done in App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider

//in map() add $this->mapApiTwoRoutes()
public function map()
{
    $this->mapApiRoutes();
    $this->mapApiTwoRoutes();//<---this one
    $this->mapWebRoutes();
}

//now add the method mapApiTwoRoutes
protected function mapApiTwoRoutes()
{
    Route::prefix('api2')//<-- prefix in the url
         ->middleware('api')//<-- api middleware (throttle and such check App\Http\Kernal.php)
         ->namespace('App\Http\Controllers') //<-- you can modify the namespace of the controllers 
         ->group(base_path('routes/apiTwo.php'));//<-- file containing the routes
}

And that's it.