Return HTTP response as a collection (Effectively) in Laravel
If you are using Laravel’s HTTP client to call a third-party API, you might want to use the response as a collection to manipulate the data.
The one way to use the json() method and then convert the response to a collection is to use the collect() method.
$response = Http::get('https://test.com/posts')->json('data');
$posts = collect($response);
However, there’s a more elegant way to do this. Essentially, the HTTP facade lets you collect the response as a collection natively by using the collect() method.
So, instead of using the json() method, you can use the collect() method directly.
$posts = Http::get('https://test.com/posts')->collect('data');
This is a more concise and readable way to do it.
I learned about this courtesy of this tweet.
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