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27. Sanctum for API Tokens

Lightweight SPA/API authentication.

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.

Check your understanding

  1. 1. What is Sanctum primarily designed for?

  2. 2. What can restrict what a Sanctum token is allowed to do?