Laravel REST API Authentication with Passport – Secure & Protect Your REST API

🔒 Are you building a REST API in Laravel and wondering how to secure it with authentication? Do you need to protect your API routes with OAuth 2.0? Or maybe you're confused between Laravel Passport and Sanctum?

In this comprehensive step-by-step tutorial, we’ll explore Laravel Passport, a powerful authentication package that enables OAuth2 authentication for your APIs. Whether you're developing a mobile app, a frontend with React/Vue, or a third-party integration, securing your API is crucial to prevent unauthorized access.

📌 What You’ll Learn in This Video:

✅ Introduction to API Authentication
✔ What is API Authentication, and why is it important?
✔ How does token-based authentication work?
✔ Why traditional session-based authentication doesn’t work for APIs

✅ Understanding Laravel Passport & OAuth 2.0
✔ What is OAuth and how does it work?
✔ Key differences between OAuth 1.0 and OAuth 2.0
✔ Why use Laravel Passport for API authentication?

✅ Laravel Passport vs Sanctum – Key Differences
✔ When to use Passport vs Sanctum?
✔ OAuth-based authentication vs simple token authentication

✅ Setting Up Laravel Passport for API Authentication
✔ Installing & configuring Laravel Passport
✔ Running migrations & setting up OAuth keys

✅ Implementing User Authentication with Passport
✔ Creating a secure user registration & login system
✔ Generating access tokens for authenticated users
✔ Protecting API routes with middleware
✔ Using refresh tokens for persistent authentication

✅ Building a Secure REST API with Passport
✔ Creating a real-world API (Todo App Example)
✔ Implementing CRUD operations with authentication
✔ Restricting API access based on user roles

✅ Testing API Endpoints with Postman
✔ Making authenticated API requests
✔ Handling authentication errors
✔ Revoking tokens and logout functionality

✅ Best Practices for API Security
✔ Using HTTPS for secure API communication
✔ Implementing token expiration and refresh strategies
✔ Restricting API access with scopes and permissions
✔ Handling authentication failures properly

🚀 By the end of this video, you’ll have a fully secured Laravel 11 REST API with authentication, access tokens, and protected routes using Laravel Passport. This is the only Passport tutorial you’ll ever need to master API authentication!

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[pixels-tutorial]

Easily described to understand passport, thanks for the tutorial.

[rjtkatoch]

Thanks for this very informative tutorial. Please make tutorials on service container, service providers, request lifecycle, ques and jobs etc.

[nagarparesh]

Thanks for explaining it in details. Which vscode extension you used for auto class, trait detection?

[manishmg]

Superb, I was Waiting for it with Cleaner approach, Waiting for next upcoming videos

[subatheesan_k]

How can you use make:class command, it says there's no such command available?

[manishmg]

access token and Refresh token, I need that where we need Both

[PasaSrifov]

hello sir, i wrote same thing but token didnt created, createToken() give undefined method error, also this error are given in your code but token are created

[ebizarro]

This code is very verbose, why do all this process if the passport already contains all this? It would be easier to just configure it.

Why use the Controller for exceptions if Laravel already works well with exceptions?

You are going to a software process where you will need a lot for very little. And let's go further, you are writing code that cannot be scaled.