Category Dropdown: Second Composable

In this lesson, we will create a dropdown select to pick from a list of categories. For this, we will create a new composable and a new API endpoint with the API Resource.

Let's start this lesson by creating a Controller with the API route.

php artisan make:controller Api/CategoryController
php artisan make:resource CategoryResource

app/Http/Controllers/Api/CategoryController.php:

use App\Http\Resources\CategoryResource;
 
class CategoryController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        return CategoryResource::collection(Category::all());
    }
}

routes/api.php:

Route::get('posts', [PostController::class, 'index']);
Route::get('categories', [CategoryController::class, 'index']); 

In the Resource, we will only add...