So, this post is about develop your own API using Lumen, a micro framework, a child of the Laravel (I assumed it that way). This topic will take few parts and this is the Episode 1 of Lumen: API Development.

Following tools required to be install on your machine:

1. Virtual Box – For those using Avira Anti Virus, you might need to head over this article if you having problem with Virtual Box.
2. Vagrant – Enable developers to easily share the same environment configurations
3. Composer – Enable developers to manage packages for system dependencies
4. Git – Famous version control (please do create a GitHub account)
5. Sublime Text 3 – best text editor I’ve used so far. 🙂

Here are the basic steps taken for setting up the Lumen(all commands running in Git Bash):

1. Create Lumen project at directory lumen-api

   composer create-project laravel/lumen lumen-api

2. Install homestead

   cd lumen-api

   composer require laravel/homestead

3. Make homestead

   php vendor/bin/homestead make

   OR

   php vendor/laravel/homestead/homestead make

4. Create id_rsa at /C/Users/[yourname]/.ssh

   ssh-keygen -t rsa -C [email protected]

   

5. Open Homestead.yaml and change map folder to working directory (step #1)

   map: "D:/WWW/lumen-api"

   

6. Update C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts file

    192.168.10.10 lumen-api.com

7. install vagrant laravel/homestead (size about 1GB..taking about 45 minutes on 4mbps connection.. T_T)

    vagrant box add laravel/homestead

   

8. Open up Virtual Box & start up the vagrant

    vagrant up

9. Try to SSH to homestead to check if it’s ok

    ssh [email protected] -p 22

   

10. Browse to lumen-api.com to check if the homestead installed properly