Sending API requests in any PHP framework has always been a little bit of a manual process, yes you can create an SDK or wrapper - but you are still having to do the same thing. It is quite a manual process.
Yet, we hadn’t tried to do this with API requests.
The result of this has turned into my latest Laravel package: https://github.com/JustSteveKing/laravel-transporter which I describe as: Transporter is a futuristic way to send API requests in PHP.
First we can generate a base API request: php artisan make:api-request Forge\\ForgeRequest