Lumen is a micro-framework from the creators of Laravel. Using Laravel methodology, Lumen offers a leaner, cut-down version of the framework. By including less code, Lumen is able to offer a significantly faster codebase than its competitors and even its bigger brother, Laravel.

Lumen is perfect for developing an API, either as a service or to serve content to a front-end framework. Developing an API then the front-end allows you to use whichever front-end technology suits you, rather than being tied into the Laravel ecosystem.

This blog post is going to walk though setting up a Lumen app to work with Vue.js as a front-end and how to utilise Vue router for handling the front-end URL logic, while still using the Lumen routing to structure your API requests.

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