Any Idea how to do Session based authentication in laravel 5.3 using vue js and vue router -

my biggest problem authentication

my head aches because im using api fetch , send data server using vue

so ive tried doing login thing auth middleware kept saying unauthorized logged in

so whats problem authentication , how can implement session based authentication?

if you're using laravel api, you'll want token-based authentication. main idea use 'api' guard (which uses tokenguard class), instead of default 'web' guard (you can change in congif/auth.php). way laravel bearer token in authorization header in each request.

this decent walk through started, though i'm sure there many other blog posts , tutorials out there.

edit:

not sure if helpful, here's example using automated test. in modelfactory, have user model api_token attribute set random (and unique) string of 60 characters. simple test make sure can retrieve list of users:

/** @test */ public function user_index_endpoint_returns_list_of_users() {     $user = factory(user::class)->create();      $this->get('/users', array(                 'accept' => 'application/json',                 'authorization' => 'bearer ' . $user->api_token             ))          ->assertresponsestatus(200)          ->seejsonstructure([             'users'          ]); } 

at top of config/auth.php file, i've set default guard 'api':

'defaults' => [     'guard' => 'api',     'passwords' => 'users', ], 

finally, in routes file i've set users route use 'auth' middleware.

route::group(['middleware' => 'auth'], function() {     route::get('/users', 'userscontroller@index'); }); 

because i've defined 'api' middleware default, behind scenes laravel use tokenguard class try authenticate request. so, bearer token in request , compare against users table.