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29. API Resources

Transforming models into JSON.

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API Resources transform Eloquent models and collections into JSON structures, decoupling your database schema from your API's public shape. Created with php artisan make:resource, a resource class's toArray() method defines the output format, and ResourceCollection handles collections with pagination metadata. Resources can conditionally include attributes with whenLoaded() and mergeWhen().

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  1. 1. What method defines a resource's JSON output?

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