Laravel and Vue JS authentication using JSON Web Tokens

This source code demonstrates how to use JWTs with Laravel and Vue JS.

Laravel version 5.5

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Blog post - Part 2

Requirements

• Laravel server requirements
• Laravel 5.5 requires PHP 7.0 or later

Setting up the project

1. Clone the repository
2. Run composer install
3. Configure Laravel directory permissions (documentation)
4. Create a database and setup the database configuration inside .env
5. Run php artisan key:generate
6. Run php artisan migrate
7. Run php artisan jwt:secret
8. Run npm install
9. Use php artisan tinker to create a test user:

App\User::create(['name' => 'Test User', 'email' => 'test@email.com', 'password' => Hash::make('Password01')])

Build

• Once you have made changes to the JavaScript or SCSS files you will want to run npm run dev or npm run production