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This seems similar to how Eloquent (Laravel's ORM) will, by default, make separate IN queries when you ask for a collection plus its relationships (instead of using a JOIN). I have thought about how you might return normalised data to your front-end and, with support from a front-end library, rebuild the object relationships so you can access them naturally. I looked into JSON:API and indeed there is a Laravel library for working with JSON:API https://github.com/laravel-json-api/laravel. One place I got stuck with JSON:API is that support for updating a row and its relationships in a single API request seems to have been kicked around for a while and is unresolved: https://github.com/json-api/json-api/issues/795 There is an atomic operations extension: https://jsonapi.org/ext/atomic/ But is currently unsupported by laravel-json-api: https

I did for one project, although I got kicked off a year in, because they didn't know what they had. IMHO every REST API should be discoverable this way like the web, for example with links to related resources in responses (at least in dev) and by having OpenAPI documentation at a root path like / or /api. JSON API provides much of this for free when used with something like Laravel: https://jsonapi.org https://jsonapi.org/implementations/ https://github.com/laravel-json-api/laravel Edit: honorable mention: https://github.com/api-ecosystem-for-laravel/dingo-api