How to make a simple REST API on Laravel?

Question

RESTful API

I want to make a simple application with a backend API on Laravel and a front on React, which gets all the ajax information from the API. But the question arises: when deploying this project to the server, it will be possible to make a request to the API not only from this source? If yes, then this is not what I would like. I only need it so that the frontend part uses it. The idea came to mind that we need to make a middleware that will check if a request comes from the same domain or not, is it the right idea? Thanks in advance for your response

Answer 1

What for? Who wants to get through to your API, regardless of the protections you hang. And 99.99% will not give a shit that you have a public API.
Middleweir won't help. The most you can do is to secure your site for your users using CORS, but the API will still be public and quite accessible.