Api Restful Lockable 5.2

Question

Hello,

I am trying to create an api in Laravel 5.2

what I’m trying to do is this:

1 - continue using default auth system for web user.

2 - create an api for users of an application.

I am using the method: auth:api, but with this method I am obliged to know the user token and what I wanted is the following in the api the user type the user and password dai with this would return me the token and he could access their pages or entries etc...

my route.php

Route::get('/', function () {
    return redirect('/home');
});

Route::auth();

Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index');

Route::group(['prefix' => 'api/v1', 'middleware' => 'auth:api'], function () {
    Route::get('/', function () {
        return Auth::guard('api')->user();
    });
});

thank you

Answer 1

To get the initial token, you need to create a route outside the group that uses middleware auth.api

a simple route as api/authenticate that receives the user data and returns the token, if the login is done successfully

Answer 2

The solution to my problem was the link: Laravel-jwt-auth