Laravel JWT Auth

Simple JWT auth implementation for Laravel.

Installation

Install package using Composer:

composer require desmart/jwt-auth

Register the package's service provider in config/app.php:

'providers' => [
        (...)
        DeSmart\JWTAuth\ServiceProvider::class,
    ],

Configuration

The package comes with a config file. In order to publish it, run the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish

The config file allows you to change some options. Be sure to check it out.

Usage

The package allows to:

1. Authenticate a user,
2. Verify if the user is authenticated using route middleware.

User authentication

First, add the TokenRefreshMiddleware as a global middleware or to a middleware group (app/Http/Kernel.php). It will add the Authorization header to the response. This header will contain the JWT token, after successful authentication.

Then, inject \DeSmart\JWTAuth\Auth\Guard into your auth class and authenticate the user (credentials validation is up to you).

public function authenticateUser(\DeSmart\JWTAuth\Auth\Guard $auth, $user) {
    if (true === $this->validateCredentails($user)) {
        $auth->loginUser($user);
    }
}

Token verification

Once a user has been authenticated, each request to your application should contain the Authorization header with the token obtained after succesful authentication.

Add AuthMiddleware to the your $routeMiddleware array (app/Http/Kernel.php):

protected $routeMiddleware = [
        (...)
        'auth' => \DeSmart\JWTAuth\Middleware\AuthMiddleware::class,
    ];

Now, simply use the auth route middleware to check if a user is authenticated.