Laravel 11 api routes

1. Install Laravel Sanctum, which provides a robust, yet simple API token authentication guard for authenticating third-party API consumers, SPAs, or mobile applications[5].

2. Create the `routes/api.php` file[1][5], where you can define your API routes. The routes in this file are stateless and are assigned to the `api` middleware group[5].

3. Configure the `api` prefix to be automatically applied to the API routes in the `bootstrap/app.php` file[5].

After running `php artisan install:api`, you can define your API routes in the `routes/api.php` file[1][2][4]. For example:

php
Route::prefix('v1')->group(base_path('routes/api_v1.php'));
Route::prefix('v2')->group(base_path('routes/api_v2.php'));

This allows you to version your API by separating routes into different files (`api_v1.php` and `api_v2.php`)[1][4]. You can then define the specific routes for each version in their respective files.

To list all the API routes in your application, you can run `php artisan route:list --path=api`[4][5]. This will display only the routes that begin with the `/api` prefix.