Laravel 5 Password Reset with Angular View

Question

I am trying to use the Laravel inbuilt password reset in my app where Laravel 5.1 acts as the backend api and Angular 1.3 for all front-end views. I have set-up the Password reset as per the docs where I have done the following:

1) Create the table

php artisan migrate

2) Added this to the route:

  Route::post('password/email', 'Auth/PasswordController@postEmail');
  Route::post('password/reset', 'Auth/PasswordController@postReset');

Since I will be using Angular to display frontend forms, I did not add the views for GET. I havent done any changes to the Auth/PasswordController.php and right now its just like the way it came. But when I test the above URL from Postman POST request, I am getting the error:

View [emails.password] not found.

How can I let Angular Handle the views and not have Laravel worry about the view? Do I have to have Laravel View for the inbuilt password reset to work? How do I approach this?

Answer 1

Override the postEmail and postReset methods so that they return a JSON response (don't let it redirect). Subsequently post to /password/email and /password/reset from Angular via xhr.

Answer 2

Open app/Http/Controllers/Auth/PasswordController.php

<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

class PasswordController extends Controller
{

use ResetsPasswords;


//add and modify this methods as you wish:


 /**
 * Send a reset link to the given user.
 *
 * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
 * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
 */
public function postEmail(Request $request)
{
    $this->validate($request, ['email' => 'required|email']);

    $response = Password::sendResetLink($request->only('email'), function (Message $message) {
        $message->subject($this->getEmailSubject());
    });

    switch ($response) {
        case Password::RESET_LINK_SENT:
            return redirect()->back()->with('status', trans($response));

        case Password::INVALID_USER:
            return redirect()->back()->withErrors(['email' => trans($response)]);
    }
}



 /**
 * Reset the given user's password.
 *
 * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
 * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
 */
public function postReset(Request $request)
{
    $this->validate($request, [
        'token' => 'required',
        'email' => 'required|email',
        'password' => 'required|confirmed',
    ]);

    $credentials = $request->only(
        'email', 'password', 'password_confirmation', 'token'
    );

    $response = Password::reset($credentials, function ($user, $password) {
        $this->resetPassword($user, $password);
    });

    switch ($response) {
        case Password::PASSWORD_RESET:
            return redirect($this->redirectPath());

        default:
            return redirect()->back()
                        ->withInput($request->only('email'))
                        ->withErrors(['email' => trans($response)]);
    }
}

}

Answer 3

Ceckout your path to views folder in app\bootstrap\cache\config.php at section "view"

'view' => 
  array (
    'paths' => 
    array (
      0 => '/home/vagrant/Code/app/resources/views',
    ),
    'compiled' => '/home/vagrant/Code/app/storage/framework/views',
  ),

this path MUST be at SERVER! not at you local mashine like "D:\WebServers\home\Laravel\app\bootstrap\cache", if you use the homestead. And You must use command like: "php artisan config:clear | cache" at SERVER!

Answer 4

I had the same problem than you. You could manage to change the view in config/auth.php if you have another one not in resources/views/emails/password.blade.php.

Because this view isn't created by default, that's why you got the error.