If you are building API-driven applications, nothing clutters up your controllers faster than manually typing out response()->json(...) arrays every single time you need to return data or throw an error.
When you have inconsistent response structures, your frontend (and the developers consuming your API) will constantly have to guess whether the data is nested under ['data'], ['payload'], or just at the root of the object.
The cleanest way I've found to standardize this across an entire application is by creating a dedicated ApiResponse trait.
Instead of rewriting your JSON structure in every controller method, create this trait in your app/Traits directory:
namespace App\Traits;
