Create your Laravel 11 app as API only

Pre-requisites

I'll assume that you have Laravel set up to use laravel commands.

Make sure you have SQLite installed.

Basic Steps

First, create your application:

laravel new basic-api

Apply the API

php artisan install:api

Delete the resources directory

Delete the file routes/web.php

Delete the line web: __DIR__.'/../routes/web.php', from bootstrap/app.php