Handling Sanctum Session Tokens

Our users can finally log in, and we are saving their API token. So, let's start using it to make our API calls:

• Restore the Laravel code changes to the original state.
• Implement expo-secure-store to store the token in the device's secure storage.
• Write Axios interceptors to add the token to the headers of all requests.

Reverting Laravel Code Changes

Let's start this by reverting all of our Laravel code changes to the original state:

app/Http/Controllers/Api/CategoryController.php

public function store(StoreCategoryRequest $request)
{
    $category = Category::create($request->validated());
    $category = auth()->user()->categories()->create($request->validated());
 
    return new CategoryResource($category);
}

And then...