Tag · Authentication

Laravel offers a nice feature, that locks out the users that attempted to login too much. It’s a nice way to prevent brute force logins.

Laravel 5.6 suggests a simple structure for creating API-driven applications. Your API routes are declared in their own routes/api.php file, and can leverage the auth:api Middleware for security.

ecently, Laravel changed some composer dependencies, so the framework comes with a JSON Web Token package included by default. Since we have the package to use JWT, let’s make a custom authentication guard for APIs using JSON Web Token.

In this tutorial we will develop a full API authentication system which can be used by any application which is able to perform requests.