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

It's better to do it with helper functions rather than Facades. This solution will work well from Laravel 5.7 onwards

//import dependency
use Illuminate\Http\Response;

//snippet
return \response()->json([
   'status' => '403',//sample entry
   'message' => 'ACCOUNT ACTION HAS BEEN DISABLED',//sample message
], Response::HTTP_FORBIDDEN);//Illuminate\Http\Response sets appropriate headers