Laravel API, how to properly handle errors : <p>Anyone know what is the best way to handle errors in Laravel, there is any rules or something to follow ?</p>

<p>Currently i'm doing this : </p>

<pre><code>public function store(Request $request)
{
  $plate = Plate::create($request-&gt;all());

  if ($plate) {
    return $this-&gt;response($this-&gt;plateTransformer-&gt;transform($plate));
  } else {
    // Error handling ?
    // Error 400 bad request
    $this-&gt;setStatusCode(400);
    return $this-&gt;responseWithError("Store failed.");
  }
}
</code></pre>

<p>And the setStatusCode and responseWithError come from the father of my controller :</p>

<pre><code>public function setStatusCode($statusCode)
{
    $this-&gt;statusCode = $statusCode;

    return $this;
}

public function responseWithError ($message )
{
    return $this-&gt;response([
        'error' =&gt; [
            'message' =&gt; $message,
            'status_code' =&gt; $this-&gt;getStatusCode()
        ]
    ]);

}
</code></pre>

<p>But is this a good way to handle the API errors, i see some different way to handle errors on the web, what is the best ?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>
