Laravel auth for API (Passport?)

Joveice · February 17, 2018

Hello,

So I had this really bad auth method that I would like to change out. I have tried to look into passport but I'm not sure if this is what I was looking for or not, as I didn't really understand what passport did other than some API for Vue.

Am I looking in the right direction or should I look into something else? I want a user to create a token, then he can use that token in his API calls for a REST API.

Limecat86 · February 18, 2018

Laravel Passport is indeed an OAuth2 service you can install and enable for your API. A front-end, coded in Vue is shipped with it that allows consumers of your API to register their 3rd party app and generate a key for it.

Joveice · February 18, 2018

21 minutes ago, Limecat86 said:

Laravel Passport is indeed an OAuth2 service you can install and enable for your API. A front-end, coded in Vue is shipped with it that allows consumers of your API to register their 3rd party app and generate a key for it.

Hm, I want users to click a button and get their API and a button to regenerate it. Nothing else.

But the tokens created from this aren't they ridiculously long?