laravel/sanctum v2.9.4

Laravel Sanctum is a powerful and lightweight library that offers an effective authentication system for Single Page Applications (SPAs) and simple APIs. Laravel Sanctum is designed to provide a simple and enjoyable development experience for both beginners and experienced PHP developers. A notable feature of Laravel Sanctum is its ability to offer robust mechanisms for issuing API tokens to your application's users. It also ensures a secure SPA authentication, keeping your customer data safe and your applications running smoothly.

Using Laravel Sanctum involves a number of easy-to-follow steps. First, install the Laravel Sanctum via Composer:

composer require laravel/sanctum

Once installed, you must publish the Sanctum configuration and migration files using the vendor:publish Artisan command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel\Sanctum\SanctumServiceProvider"

Next, you need to run your database migrations using:

php artisan migrate

In your app/Http/Kernel.php file, you should add Laravel Sanctum’s middleware:

use Laravel\Sanctum\Http\Middleware\EnsureFrontendRequestsAreStateful;

'api' => [
    EnsureFrontendRequestsAreStateful::class,
    'throttle:60,1',
    \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
],

To use Sanctum's tokenCan method to authenticate certain actions, you need to add Laravel\Sanctum\HasApiTokens trait to your App\Models\User model:

use Laravel\Sanctum\HasApiTokens;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use HasApiTokens, Notifiable;
}

Now, you are ready to start using Laravel Sanctum. Let's login a user, and provide a token:

$user = User::find(1);

$token = $user->createToken('my-token')->plainTextToken;

return response()->json(['token' => $token]);

In your client side, simply use this token in the Authorization header:

Authorization: Bearer my-token

For a comprehensive walkthrough of Laravel Sanctum and further code examples, kindly refer to the official documentation which can be found on the Laravel website at https://laravel.com/docs/sanctum. In the documentation, you'll find additional details that cover a wider scope of the usage and integration possibilities of Laravel Sanctum.