This Laravel app is part of the RealWorld project and implementation of the Laravel best practices.

You might also check Ruby on Rails version of this app.

See how the exact same Medium.com clone (called Conduit) is built using different frontends and backends. Yes, you can mix and match them, because they all adhere to the same API spec

Make sure you have PHP and Composer installed globally on your computer.

Clone the repo and enter the project folder

git clone https://github.com/alexeymezenin/laravel-realworld-example-app.git
cd laravel-realworld-example-app

Install the app

composer install
cp .env.example .env

Run the web server

php artisan serve

That's it. Now you can use the api, i.e.

https://127.0.0.1:8000/api/articles