title: To Make an API Centric Application or Not? - Laravel
body: <p>So. I have embarked on the journey of learning Laravel in the last couple of weeks, and am thoroughly enjoying it.</p>
  
  <p>It has come time for a site redesign and I thought it was about time to tighten up some of our functionality, so I am making the switch from CodeIgniter to Laravel.</p>
  
  <p>I was wondering whether it is worth starting off with a RESTful API layer in Laravel (easy enough to create) and use it as a base even for the web application. In the future we are likely to build a mobile app that will need to use the API. So:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Is it worth having the web application connect to the API </li>
  <li>and what is the easiest way/s to make calls to the API without having to write a bazillion
  lines for cURL everytime I want to make a request?</li>
  </ol>