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I am working on a project and currently writing the backend. I have decided to implement it as a rest api since i need to write a web app as well as a mobile app. I am having problem understanding how do i login the user since rest api are stateless. I have read some material which mention basic authentication (sending login credentials) with each request or Oauth2.0. Basic authentication is not recommended and i don't understand why i should use Oauth2.0 because no third party will be using my api. My question is how should i implement login functionality and what are the standards ?

Answer 1

You'll need to add a unique api_token column for your Users table.

$table->string('api_token', 60)->unique();

In Laravel 5.4, api.php holds the API routes, you'll need to use an out-of-the-box middleware auth:api, so you can authenticate requests by api_token.

Read more http://bootstrapdojo.com/rest-api-laravel-5-4-with-token-authentication/