Create a New Record: POST from HTML Form

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Until now, we have been talking about API returning data from the server. Now, it's time to post data. We will create a new category.

For Controller methods, we will use the usual naming.

routes/api.php:

Route::get('/user', function (Request $request) {
    return $request->user();
})->middleware('auth:sanctum');
 
Route::get('categories', [\App\Http\Controllers\Api\CategoryController::class, 'index']);
Route::get('categories/{category}', [\App\Http\Controllers\Api\CategoryController::class, 'show']);
Route::post('categories', [\App\Http\Controllers\Api\CategoryController::class, 'store']); 
 
Route::get('products', [\App\Http\Controllers\Api\ProductController::class, 'index']);

We will create a new category in the Controller, but what will we return? In a regular form without API, it would usually return a redirect to some page. But in this case, we must return...