Login Cleanup and Laravel Sanctum

Now that we have created an authentication page and can log in the user, we need to protect the routes, both on the front-end and back-end. So let's implement auth:sanctum Middleware.

Protect Back-end API Calls

We have installed Sanctum earlier with the install:api Artisan command. Now, we can update the API routes to use the auth:sanctum Middleware.

routes/api.php:

Route::get('/user', function (Request $request) { 
    return $request->user();
})->middleware('auth:sanctum'); 
 
Route::group(['middleware' => 'auth:sanctum'], function() { 
    Route::apiResource('posts', PostController::class);
    Route::get('categories', [CategoryController::class, 'index']);
    Route::get('/user', function (Request $request) { 
        return $request->user();
    });
}); 

Next, we need to redirect the user to the login page, on the front-end. We need to...