Lontar

A minimal, headless blog API package for Laravel. Ships a Post model, full CRUD controller, and API routes. Stores post bodies as Markdown and renders them server-side via league/commonmark.

No opinions on auth, frontend, or theming — bring your own.

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Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 11 or 12
• laravel/sanctum installed in the consuming app (for authenticated endpoints)

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Installation

composer require lontar/blog

The service provider is auto-discovered. Run migrations:

php artisan migrate

That's it. The API routes are registered automatically under /api.

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Endpoints

Public

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	/api/posts	Paginated list of published posts (title, slug, excerpt, published_at)
GET	/api/posts/{slug}	Full detail for a single published post

Posts with a null published_at or a future published_at are treated as drafts and excluded from public responses.

Authenticated (auth:sanctum)

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	/api/posts/drafts	Paginated list of unpublished posts
POST	/api/posts	Create a new post
PUT	/api/posts/{slug}	Update a post
DELETE	/api/posts/{slug}	Delete a post
POST	/api/posts/{slug}/publish	Set published_at to now
POST	/api/posts/{slug}/unpublish	Set published_at to null

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Request Bodies

POST /api/posts

{
    "title": "My Post Title",
    "body": "Markdown content here.",
    "excerpt": "Optional short summary.",
    "published_at": "2026-03-10T00:00:00Z"
}

slug is derived automatically from title. excerpt and published_at are optional — omit published_at to save as a draft.

PUT /api/posts/{slug}

Same fields as above, all optional. If title is updated, slug is regenerated.

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Markdown

Post bodies are stored as raw Markdown. The Post model exposes a rendered_body attribute that converts the body to HTML on access via league/commonmark:

$post->rendered_body; // HTML string

Use this in your views when rendering post content. The raw body field is always available too.

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Post Model

use Lontar\Blog\Models\Post;

// Published posts
Post::published()->get();

// All posts including drafts
Post::all();

// Find by slug
Post::where('slug', 'my-post')->firstOrFail();

The published scope filters to posts where published_at is not null and not in the future.

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Auth

This package ships with auth:sanctum on write routes but does not install or configure Sanctum. Set it up in your consuming app:

composer require laravel/sanctum
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel\Sanctum\SanctumServiceProvider"
php artisan migrate

Then ensure your api middleware group includes sanctum in bootstrap/app.php or app/Http/Kernel.php.

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License

MIT