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Building and consuming APIs, and connecting third-party services.

Building an Autocomplete Search Field in Laravel

The backend piece — a debounced, rate-limited JSON search endpoint — stays the same regardless of which frontend autocomplete widget consumes it, and that endpoint is the part actually worth getting right.

Converting HTML to PDF in Angular

Two genuinely different approaches exist — rendering the DOM to an image-based PDF entirely in the browser, or asking a server to generate a real, selectable-text PDF — and they aren't interchangeable.

Making HTTP Requests From Laravel With the Http Facade

Laravel's Http facade is a fluent wrapper around Guzzle — the current standard way to call an external API, replacing hand-rolled cURL or file_get_contents calls for anything server-to-server.

Generating QR Codes in Laravel

A single well-maintained package (endroid/qr-code, wrapped by simple-qrcode) covers this — the actual decisions are output format, error-correction level, and whether to embed a logo.

Building a Simple REST API in Laravel 13

A modern Laravel API separates routes, validation, authorization, persistence, resources, authentication and tests instead of returning raw models from controllers.

Creating Services in Angular

A service is a plain class Angular's dependency injector knows how to construct and share — the mechanism for putting logic and data outside any one component.

Angular File Upload With FormData

File inputs in Angular are uncontrolled — you read the selected File object off a change event, then hand it to the browser's FormData API before sending it with HttpClient.