Laravel 11 API Passport Authentication

Introduction to Laravel 11 API Passport Authentication

Laravel 11 provides a world best framework for building APIs, and Passport is a powerful package that adds OAuth2 authentication to Laravel applications. In this blog post, we will teach how to set up and configure Passport for API authentication step by step for apply seurity in laravel 11.

Installing Passport in Laravel 11

Install Passport package via Composer. Run the following command in your terminal:

composer require laravel/passport

After the installation is complete, you need to run the Passport migrations  for storing OAuth2 tokens and clients.

php artisan migrate

Configuring Passport

After complete the  migrations , you need to install Passport by running the following command:

php artisan passport:install

After that go to the user model  add the name space at the top

import the namespace Laravel\Passport\HasApiTokens

This command generate encryption keys needed to generate secure access tokens. Next, you need to add the

HasApiTokens

full code i attached below to work.

<?php
namespace App\Models;
// use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Laravel\Passport\HasApiTokens;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use HasApiTokens,HasFactory, Notifiable;

    
    protected $fillable = [
        'name',
        'email',
        'password',
    ];Setting Up Routes for Authentication

To make use of Passport’s authentication routes, you need to add the Passport routes within your AppServiceProvider.php file:

use the namespace

Passport::ignoreRoutes();

Full code here

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Laravel\Passport\Passport;



class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    
    public function register(): void
    {
        Passport::ignoreRoutes();

    }

    public function boot(): void
    {

    }
}

After that you have to go to config/auth.php file and you should find the guard and add api passport i have written below .

'guards' => [
        'web' => [
            'driver' => 'session',
            'provider' => 'users',
        ],
        'api' => [
            'driver' => 'passport',
            'provider' => 'users',
        ],
    ],

php artisan make:controller Api/AuthController

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Api;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;

class AuthController extends Controller
{
    public function register(Request $request)
    {
        $registerdData = $request->validate([
            'name' => 'required|max:55',
            'email' => 'email|required|unique:users',
            'password' => 'required|confirmed'
        ]);
    
        $user = User::create($registerdData);
    
        $accessToken = $user->createToken('authToken')->accessToken;
    
        return response(['user' => $user, 'access_token' => $accessToken], 201);
        
    }

    public function login(Request $request)
    {
        $loginData = $request->validate([
            'email' => 'required|string|email',
            'password' => 'required|string',
        ]);
    
        if (!auth()->attempt($loginData)) {
            return response()->json(['message' => 'Invalid credentials'], 401);
        }
    
        $user = auth()->user();
        $accessToken = $user->createToken('authToken')->accessToken;
    
        return response()->json([
            'user' => $user,
            'access_token' => $accessToken,
        ]);
    }
}

php artisan install:api

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\API\AuthController;

Route::get('/user', function (Request $request) {
    return $request->user();
})->middleware('auth:sanctum');


Route::post('register', [AuthController::class, 'register']);
Route::post('login', [AuthController::class, 'login']);