Taking backups is the fundamental part of software development keeping backups can be a very decision. So in this post on Laravel Google Drive API – The Best way to take a full backup of your app we’ll cover the zipping project and taking complete project backup then send it to google drive.

Table of Contents

• Configuring and Installing Google Client
• Project Structure
• Creating a helper class for Drive
• Setting up routes
• Setting up Controllers
• Conclusion

Configuring and Installing Google Client

The first step would be to turn on  Driver API in the process you have to provide the project name, select integration type web server, then specify the callback URL of your application and after a few click, it will ask you to download the credentials.js file.

Installing google/apiclient

Open the composer.json file of your Laravel application and add “google/apiclient”: “^2.0” within require.

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