4 years ago

Category: Laravel, PHP, MySQL, api

The Laravel framework gives us a lot of things out of the box. When coding an API, you should be able to authenticate users (finding out who the user is), authorize users (allowing a user to only access specific routes based on some privileges. In this short tutorial, I am going to show how you can provide authentication for your API in Laravel.

Some of the ways are: Laravel Authentication (Laravel’s built in Authentication) Laravel guards: using a JWT library (We shall be using this in the tutorial) Laravel Socialite Laravel Passport Laravel Sanctum

Note: This is a basic implementation, in real life applications, you can check if user records exist in the database first before they are allowed to attempt login.