Laravel - Return json along with http status code

Question

If I return an object:

return Response::json([
    \'hello\' => $value
]);

the status code will be 200. How can I change it to 201, with

Answer 1

I think it is better practice to keep your response under single control and for this reason I found out the most official solution.

response()->json([...])
    ->setStatusCode(Response::HTTP_OK, Response::$statusTexts[Response::HTTP_OK]);

add this after namespace declaration:

use Illuminate\Http\Response;