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Installing tymon-jwt-auth

Let's learn how to install and configure tymon/jwt-auth.

The installation process is pretty simple, but, as the tymon/jwt-auth library is in constant development, we should take some care related what the version we will use:

1. Open the project/composer.json file and add the following line of code, right after Laravel/Tinker:

"tymon/jwt-auth": "1.0.*"

2. Now, it is time to publish the vendor package. Still in your Terminal window and inside the Tinker console, type the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\LaravelServiceProvider"

Note that we are using Laravel 5.6 and jwt-auth 1.0, so we don't need to perform any additional actions to load JWT providers. The jwt-auth