Laravel Sanctum - API Authentication

Laravel Sanctum is a simple authentication system for APIs, with support for token-based authentication. It features a minimal API for token issuance and validation.

With Sanctum, you may issue tokens for your own custom authentication guards. For example, you may use Sanctum to authenticate mobile applications by issuing tokens for each device your user logs in with. If you are building a single-page application, you may use Sanctum to authenticate requests that are submitted via JavaScript.

Sanctum also provides an optional SPA authentication guard that uses Laravel's built-in cookie based session authentication to authenticate requests from your SPA. This provides the benefits of CSRF protection, session authentication, as well as protects against leakage of the authentication credentials via XSS.

Sanctum is very easy to install and can be integrated into any Laravel application with minimal configuration. By default, Laravel Sanctum stores API tokens in your application's default database connection, however, it fully support using an external, custom token storage system if needed.

Overall, Laravel Sanctum provides a simple and flexible solution for API authentication that can be tailored to the specific needs of your application.

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