Skillshub laravel-api-resources-and-pagination

Name: laravel-api-resources-and-pagination
Author: ComeOnOliver

API Resources and Pagination

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/ComeOnOliver/skillshub

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/ComeOnOliver/skillshub "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/noartem/skills/laravel-api-resources-and-pagination" ~/.claude/skills/comeonoliver-skillshub-laravel-api-resources-and-pagination && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/noartem/skills/laravel-api-resources-and-pagination/SKILL.md

source content

API Resources and Pagination

Represent models via Resources; keep transport concerns out of Eloquent.

Commands

# Resource
php artisan make:resource PostResource    # or: php artisan make:resource PostResource

# Controller usage
return PostResource::collection(
    Post::with('author')->latest()->paginate(20)
);

# Resource class
public function toArray($request)
{
    return [
        'id' => $this->id,
        'title' => $this->title,
        'author' => new UserResource($this->whenLoaded('author')),
        'published_at' => optional($this->published_at)->toAtomString(),
    ];
}

Patterns

Prefer

Resource::collection($query->paginate())

over manual arrays

Use
```
when()
```
/
```
mergeWhen()
```
for conditional fields
Keep pagination cursors/links intact for clients
Version resources when contracts change; avoid breaking fields silently