Laravel passport

Laravel Passport is an OAuth2 server and API authentication package that is simple and enjoyable to use. We will use laravel passport to authenticate token-based request except for session

You have to just follow a few steps to get following web services:

• Login API
• Register API
• Details API

Step 1 – First Create a Project

$ composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel RestAPI "5.8.*"

Step 2 – Install Package

There are two ways to install package:

1. Write the following command given below

composer require laravel/passport

2. Update the composer and check your composer.json file

composer update

Step 3 – Open config/app.php file and add service provider

Step 4 – Update database name (.env file)

Step 5 – Open phpMyAdmin and create databse

Step 5 – Run Migration and Install

php artisan migrate

php artisan passport:install

Step – 6 Modify User.php

Go to app–>http–>User.php

Step – 7 Modify app/Providers/AuthServiceProvider.php

Step 8 – Modify config/auth.php

Step -9 Create API Route

Go to routes–>api.php

Step 10 – Create The Controller

 php artisan make:controller UserController

Step 11 – Open UserController

• We create an API folder inside the Controllers folder
• After Creating, we Move UserController.php to API folder

Go and Run the server inside RestAPI folder, code is given below-

$php artisan serve

Step – 12 Download the app to quickly get started using the Postman API Platform. 

Step – 13 After Installing, Open and Hit the API

We have to write key-value pair to store data in database. Given Below

Now, Token is generated in the above image by hitting the send button. After hitting the send button the key-value pair is stored in the database. Let’s go and open phpMyAdmin given below.