I'd say Intermediate level developers. Advanced developers that haven't written Laravel or Lumen APIs can benefit. I've geared the book towards the bigger PHP

I'd say Intermediate level developers. Advanced developers that haven't written Laravel or Lumen APIs can benefit. I've geared the book towards the bigger PHP audience on purpose because I have found an amazing productivity boost in using Laravel for web apps and Lumen for APIs. The workflow is the same. By itself, Lumen provides a solid developer experience with database migrations, the Eloquent ORM (optional) and service providers. I have found a huge productivity boost in using Laravel + Lumen as my go-to development toolkit for APIs since I don't have to switch mindsets when writing APIs vs web applications. Those who write Laravel