Today I was working on an API written in Laravel for a React Native app with another developer.
He was trying to make requests to the Laravel backend and told me he kept receiving a response with a http status code of 302. 3XX http status codes are redirection status codes.
It turned out that he had not set an accept header on the requests to the server that the app was making.
By default if you dont set a requests accept headers they default to Accept: */*. With those set laravel responds with a Content-Type of text/html.
For the purpose of this project every api response needs to return JSON.
We can achieve this really easily by using middleware to overwrite the Accept headers on the incoming request and setting them to application/json.
