Lumen is Laravel's little brother: a fast, lightweight micro-framework for writing RESTful APIs. With just a little bit of code, you can use Lumen to build a secure and extremely fast RESTful API.

In this video tutorial from the course, Create a REST API With Lumen, you'll learn how to use Lumen's built-in authentication middleware to secure a REST API with Lumen. Watch the course: https://code.tutsplus.com/courses/create-a-rest-api-with-lumen?utm_campaign=yt_tutsplus_Plh5wiISHTU&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=youtube.com&utm_content=description

The video refers to code from a sample music store API that we created in earlier lessons of the course. You can view the full source code from the course on GitHub: https://github.com/tutsplus/create-a-rest-api-with-lumen