Laravel API Middleware Return JSON all request

My controllers that respond to api request, all respond with data that should be transformed into JSON.

Instead of using json_encode() in every controller, I would like to use middleware to just wrap the response. Since these routes for the API are already protected with the auth:api middleware which from what I have read is defined within the core of Laravel.

How would I go about adding a method to that middleware that would do all the json processing for me? could

via Chebli Mohamed