How to setup routes when you have an API and a website-CodePudding

Let's assume I have a Laravel application where I have a page where I display all my customers in a table. So in my web.php I point /customers to the index method in my CustomersController. The index method gets all the customer objects and returns them and the index blade in a view.

Now I also would like to build an api using the api.php routes where I can get all my customers with a request. But if I point /customers to the index method in my api.php routes it would return a view and not all the customer objects. Which would be useless.

So my question is what the best way and most efficient way is to handle this problem. Because creating a "duplicate" CustomerController just for the api requests seems a little too excesive.

CodePudding user response：

you can add a condition in the index method

for example:

public function index(Request $request){
 if($request->is("api*"){
   return response($customers);
 }
 $data['customers'] = $customers;
 return view("customers blade")->with($data);
}