Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

Setting up the auth guard

Now, let's make some adjustments to the config.auth.php file in order to protect some routes:

1. Open project/config/auth.php and replace the API driver with the following code:

 'defaults' => [         'guard'  =>  'api',
        'passwords'  =>  'users',
 ],
 'guards'  => [
                'web'  => [
                        'driver'  =>  'session',
                        'provider'  =>  'users',
        ],        
 'api'  => [
                'driver'  =>  'jwt',
                'provider'  =>  'users',
        ],
 ],

2. Note that we replaced the default Laravel authentication drivers with api and jwt.