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27. Sanctum for API Tokens

Lightweight SPA/API authentication.

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Laravel Sanctum provides a simple way to authenticate SPAs, mobile apps, and simple token-based APIs. It issues personal access tokens for APIs or uses cookie-based session authentication for first-party SPAs, avoiding full OAuth complexity. Tokens can be scoped with abilities to restrict what actions they permit.

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1. What is Sanctum primarily designed for?
Full OAuth2 server implementationLightweight SPA and API token authenticationDatabase migrationsJob queues
2. What can restrict what a Sanctum token is allowed to do?
Middleware groupsToken abilitiesRoute cachingBlade directives

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