Securing a Laravel API in 20 minutes with JWTs
In this video you'll learn how you can secure a Laravel API and authenticate users within it using JSON Web Tokens.
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This will let you to separate your API and use it in external clients like native mobile apps or single-page web apps, where we need a user to be 'signed in' in order to view specific routes or pages.
JWTs work like this:
• Send user credentials to the API
• Get back a unique token (JWT) representing the user's session
• Use this token in requests where user authentication is required
• Return details specific to the user who has provided their token
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