API Resource mentransformasi model Eloquent menjadi format JSON yang rapi.

Membuat resource:

php artisan make:resource UserResource

class UserResource extends JsonResource
{
    public function toArray(Request $request): array
    {
        return [
            "id" => $this->id,
            "name" => $this->name,
            "email" => $this->email,
            "avatar_url" => $this->photo_url,
            "member_since" => $this->created_at->format("Y-m-d"),
            "posts_count" => $this->whenCounted("posts"),
        ];
    }
}

Menggunakan resource:

// Single resource
return new UserResource($user);
// { "data": { "id": 1, "name": "Budi", ... } }

// Collection
return UserResource::collection($users);
// { "data": [{ "id": 1, ... }, { "id": 2, ... }] }

Keuntungan:

• Kontrol persis field apa yang dikirim ke client
• Sembunyikan field sensitif (password, token)
• Transform format (date, URL)
• Konsisten response structure