Laravel + Respect Attribute Validation Example

Minimal Laravel 13.x-dev project focused on one thing:

• Laravel handles transport and persistence concerns with PHP attributes
• Respect\Validation 3 handles domain validation through DTO attributes
• one PitchDraft DTO is reused by request mapping, validation, persistence, and API resource output

Core Files

• app/Http/Requests/StorePitchShowcaseRequest.php
• app/Http/Requests/StorePitchShowcaseApiRequest.php
• app/Http/Requests/PitchDraftRequest.php
• app/Data/PitchDraft.php
• app/Support/RespectAttributeValidator.php
• app/Http/Controllers/PitchShowcaseController.php
• app/Models/Pitch.php
• resources/views/pitch-showcase.blade.php
• routes/web.php
• routes/api.php
• tests/Feature/PitchShowcaseTest.php

Run

composer install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
touch database/database.sqlite
php artisan migrate
php artisan serve

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000/showcase/pitch

API endpoints:

• POST /api/showcase/pitch

Test

php artisan test